The FTC antitrust complaint is expected to focus on Amazon's online marketplace and could be filed in the coming weeks, Bloomberg reported.
The complaint is expected to focus on Amazon's online marketplace and how the company uses its power to favor merchants that use its logistics services, Bloomberg reported based on documents it reviewed and three unnamed sources familiar with the case. The complaint could be filed in the coming weeks, Bloomberg said.
Such a lawsuit would a huge milestone for FTC Chair Lina Khan, who became a known figure in the antitrust world in 2017 when The Yale Law Journal published her note, " ." In it, Khan argued that the prevailing antitrust framework at the time failed to adequately assess Amazon's vast power and the ways it could use it to harm competition.
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