Executives at Amazon.com Inc.
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discussed how pricing policies at the e-commerce giant had a “punitive aspect” with regard to sellers, according to internal documents quoted in newly unredacted portions of the Federal Trade Commission’s monopoly lawsuit against the company. The FTC also asserts Amazon intentionally destroyed two years’ worth of encrypted internal text messages to thwart the FTC’s investigation. “The FTC’s claim that Amazon and its executives failed to preserve evidence is baseless and irresponsible,” an Amazon spokesman said. “Amazon voluntarily disclosed employee Signal use to the FTC, painstakingly collected Signal conversations from its employees’ phones, and allowed agency staff to inspect those conversations even when they had nothing to do with the FTC’s investigation.”
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