US Senator Seeks To "Break Up" Amazon Amid India Controversy
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The Amazon documents reviewed by Reuters showed how the company's private-brands team in India secretly exploited internal data from its India unit to copy products sold by other companies, then offered them on its platform
US Senator Elizabeth Warren called for breaking up Amazon.com Inc and Indian retailers demanded a government probe of the company after a Reuters investigation showed the e-commerce giant had copied products and rigged search results in India. These documents prove Amazon engages in anticompetitive practices such as rigging search results and self-preferencing their own products over competitors.More concerning, it contradicts what Jeff Bezos told Congress. Amazon and Bezos must be held accountable. https://t.co/ARvgND3hH6
The Reuters report, reviewing thousands of internal Amazon documents, found that the US company ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoffs and manipulating search results to boost its own private brands in India, one of the company's largest growth markets.
Wednesday's report showed that, at least in India, manipulating search results to favour Amazon's products, as well as copying other sellers' goods, were part of a formal strategy at Amazon - and that at least two senior executives had reviewed it.
The Reuters investigation drew bipartisan criticism of Amazon from U.S. lawmakers.
