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Amazon Seeks to Force New FTC Chair to Recuse Herself over Past Amazon Criticism

HeadlineJul 01, 2021

In tech news, Amazon is seeking to force the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, to recuse herself from antitrust investigations into the company due to her past writings about Amazon. As a student at Yale Law School, Khan wrote a widely read paper detailing how antitrust laws had failed to prevent Amazon from growing into a monopoly.

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