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The FTC also said Amazon “destroyed more than two years” worth of communications from June 2019 to “at least early 2022” despite instructions not to.
The US Federal Trade Commission has accused Amazon of using unfair methods to maintain its online retailing dominance.
By Brian Fung, CNN
Amazon.com used a series of illegal strategies to stay on top of online retailing while pushing up prices for buyers and extracting more revenue from independent sellers, the Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday.
Amazon used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites, the FTC alleged.