FTC Says Amazon Seeks 'Impossible' Standard For Sanctions

By Bryan Koenig ( March 18, 2026, 5:26 PM EDT) -- The Federal Trade Commission pressed a Washington federal judge Tuesday to sanction Amazon.com for using autodeleting Signal chats and deleting raw meeting notes to hide evidence of company policies that created an artificial pricing floor across online retail stores, arguing Amazon is fighting the motion by inventing an "impossible-to-meet standard" for imposing sanctions....

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