Joan Moriarty, SOC’s research director, who worked on the analysis, said the organization is “very hopeful” that the FTC will investigate a case like this under the leadership of Chair Lina Khan (D), a prominent critic of Amazon and other Big Tech platforms. The agency has been broadly scrutinizing Amazon’s business practices since the Trump era, but Khan is widely expected to take a more aggressive approach, given her past academic writing, in which she argued that a new antitrust standard needed to be applied to the company.
Amazons search results full of ads that may be unlawfully deceiving consumers, complaint to FTC claims – The Washington Post
