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Amazon gets busted

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Amazon gets busted

Exploiting third-party sellers, manipulating search results, hosting fake reviews. Now lawmakers and the FTC are paying attention

Casey Newton
Oct 15, 2021
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Photo of an Amazon box in the trash. (Sean Robbins / Unsplash)
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Are the walls beginning to close in on Amazon?

Consider: A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced legislation that would ban self-preferencing: the practice of favoring a big tech platform’s own products and services. It would also prohibit the giants from discriminating against businesses in a way that harms compet…

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