Amazon algorithm juiced prices, cost US consumers $1 billion, new FTC lawsuit documents allege
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By Brian Fung, CNN
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos personally directed a monumental shift in the company’s e-commerce business to embrace online advertising, according to a newly unredacted version of an antitrust lawsuit filed this fall by the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states.
The new excerpts unveiled today allege Amazon executives intentionally deleted communication by using a feature on the popular app Signal that makes messages disappear.
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.
Amazon used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites, the FTC alleged.