REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 22 (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission will file a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon (AMZN.O) in federal court as soon as Tuesday, Politico reported on Friday, kicking off the latest leg in the US effort to rein in the market power of Big Tech companies.
The legal action, which would follow federal lawsuits filed against Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and Meta's (META.O) Facebook, has been expected after years of complaints that the big tech companies abused their dominance.
Amazon.com, for example, has been accused of buying competitors to thwart competition and abusing third-party sellers on its platform, among other allegations.
The American tech giant has been criticized for allegedly favoring its own products and disfavoring outside sellers on its platform.
FTC chairperson Lina Khan authored a Yale Law Journal article in 2017, in which she said Amazon's structure and practices posed anticompetitive concerns and has escaped antitrust scrutiny.
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Pascal, Lina Khan, Urvi Dugar, Yuvraj Malik, Shilpi Majumdar, Chizu
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