{"id":930693,"date":"2025-05-14T11:43:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=930693"},"modified":"2025-05-14T11:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:13:30","slug":"amazon-hid-documents-calling-jeff-bezos-chief-dark-arts-officer-and-shady-prime-tactics-us-ftc-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/14\/amazon-hid-documents-calling-jeff-bezos-chief-dark-arts-officer-and-shady-prime-tactics-us-ftc-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon hid documents calling Jeff Bezos \u2018Chief Dark Arts Officer\u2019 and \u2018Shady\u2019 Prime tactics, US FTC claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accused Amazon of attempting to hide incriminating evidence in the antitrust suit, a report claims. The FTC states that Amazon systematically filed misleading privilege claims for the same. After a federal judge ordered a re-review, Amazon reportedly withdrew 92% of its privilege claims and produced nearly 70,000 documents that were previously shielded. A significant portion of these, around 58,000 documents, were initially fully withheld from the court, the report adds. For instance, in one document, the current CEO of Amazon&#8217;s retail business described \u201c(Prime) subscription driving\u201d as \u201ca bit of a shady world.\u201d In that context, this CEO reportedly referred to Amazon founder (former CEO) Jeff Bezos as Amazon\u2019s \u201cchief dark arts officer,\u201d according to the FTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accused Amazon of attempting to hide incriminating evidence in the antitrust suit, a report claims. The FTC states that Amazon systematically filed misleading privilege claims for the same. After a federal judge ordered a re-review, Amazon reportedly withdrew 92% of its privilege claims and produced nearly 70,000 documents that were previously shielded. A significant portion of these, around 58,000 documents, were initially fully withheld from the court, the report adds. For instance, in one document, the current CEO of Amazon&#8217;s retail business described \u201c(Prime) subscription driving\u201d as \u201ca bit of a shady world.\u201d In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}