False advertisement. I'm not American so I'm not sure exactly how the laws on false advertisement look, but if you read the article, this is the cited violation.

Basically, Google payed radio hosts to endorse their phone, but they didn't actually use the phone. I'm not sure if Google didn't provide samples or if the people just didn't do it, but basically, some people got payed to endorse a product they hadn't used, they did, now both parties are in hot water.

I just skimmed the article, but the way I see is that the world's #1 biggest problem is that the powerful people in charge don't listen to science...