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Amazon’s ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.
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Amazon’s ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.
Amazon used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites, the FTC alleged.
The new excerpts, unveiled Thursday, alleged company executives intentionally deleted communication by using a feature on the popular app Signal that makes messages disappear.
Amazon's Secret Algorithm 'Project Nessie' Raised Prices You Pay On Other Sites, Too - FTC Claims
A newly unredacted portion of the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon says the company used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites. It also alleges Amazon executives intentionally deleted internal communication during the agency's investigation into the company by using a feature on the popular app Signal that makes messages disappear. By doing this, the FTC says the company destroyed more than two years worth of communications from June 2019 to at least early 2022, despite instructions it gave Amazon not to d...