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The attorneys general of New York and California have partnered with the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Amazon’s market, Bloomberg reported Monday.
Agencies plan to start interviewing witnesses in the coming weeks, according to Bloomberg.
California research has already been reported through the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg first reported on collaboration between agencies. The New York Times reported last month that Washington had also investigated the issue.
Amazon has faced increasing scrutiny about how it uses the vast wealth of knowledge it collects from third-party vendors on its site, and competition and regulators claim that Amazon exploded to launch competing products or advertise its own, in violation of its own statement. Policies.
The company first refuted these claims publicly and under oath before Congress, but reports from the Wall Street Journal in April questioned the accuracy of its statements, leading Amazon to open an internal investigation into the matter.
Last month, dozens of marketers and investors also told the Wall Street Journal that Amazon used its investment agreements in its corporations for its in-house knowledge and used it to expand competing products.
At a primary antitrust hearing in Congress last week, lawmakers questioned CEO Jeff Bezos (as well as the CEOs of Apple, Facebook and Google Parent Alphabet) about how tech giants use their market power. At the most revealing moment of the audience, Bezos told them that it may not ensure that Amazon has never violated its own policies of opposition to the use of trend knowledge at third-party distributors to inform Amazon’s internal brands.
Amazon is already the subject of several researches on its potentially monopoly habit, as well as its remedy to workers.
These come with FTC surveys of “hundreds” of acquisitions beyond Amazon, the House Judiciary Committee on a wide range of antitrust issues (which its hearing reported last week) and European Union regulators, which are reviewing the management of the company. external distributors in particular.
Amazon also faces inquiries from officials in New York, New York, and California, as well as the National Labor Relations Board, on allegations that it did not protect the coronavirus pandemic staff or retaliate against them for speaking.
A spokesman for the New York Attorney General’s Office did not show or deny the investigation. A spokesman for the California Attorney General’s Office referred Business Insider to the New York Attorney General and the FTC declined to comment.
Avery Hartmans contributed to the story’s reporting.