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Senator Calls for Criminal Probe of Amazon’s White Label Sales

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Christopher Stern
· · Source: CNBC

Sen. Josh Hawley is calling on the Department of Justice to open an antitrust investigation of Amazon’s use of data from third-party sellers to develop its own white label products, CNBC reported. Hawley’s call for a criminal probe highlights that the good will that Amazon and other big tech companies have built up through their response to the Covid-19 crisis is fragile. Despite efforts to...

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