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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
Photo of an Amazon box in the trash. (Sean Robbins / Unsplash)
(Sean Robbins / Unsplash)

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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