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An Amazon employee group created by warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York, announced that it aims to vote on unionization in the near future. The group said in a statement: “Workers are demanding Amazon to stop their union busting practices and allow workers to use their rights to organize towards collective bargaining without interference.”

Makers of apps that allow users to read and listen to the Bible and Quran, including Amazon’s Audible, announced Friday they had removed such apps from China’s Apple Store citing Chinese government “permit requirements.”

In a recent letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, five members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee allege that the company’s top executives including founder Jeff Bezos misled or possibly lied to Congress about Amazon’s business practices.

A group representing millions of Indian retailers on Thursday demanded a government investigation of Amazon.com following a Reuters report that accused the online retail behemoth of manipulating search results to privilege its own knockoff brands over Indian retail merchandise.

A coalition of Google and Amazon workers has published an open letter in the Guardian protesting the tech companies’ decision to supply the Israeli military and government with technology.

A recent report claims that internal Amazon documents show that the company created knockoff items and manipulated search results to promote its own product lines in India.

According to a recent report, employees at Jeff Bezos’ space exploration firm Blue Origin allege that the company promotes a toxic “bro culture” that led to mistrust, low morale, and project delays.

Twitch streamer and strident socialist Hasan Piker has reportedly made nearly $3 million from the Amazon-owned streaming platform since 2019 — placing him comfortably in the top one percent of earners in the United States — according to a massive leak of internal documents which disclosed streamers’ earnings.

The Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch has reportedly suffered a massive data leak, which has disclosed confidential company information, as well as streamers’ earnings, with more than 100GB of data posted to the internet on Wednesday.

According to a number of current and former employees of Jeff Bezos’ space exploration firm Blue Origin, the company is a “toxic” workplace.

Amazon has announced a new robot named Astro designed to make household tasks easier — all while using its AI-powered cameras and facial recognition tech to scan the faces of everyone in your home.

Former intelligence officials who warned lawmakers against an antitrust crackdown against the Big Tech Masters of the Universe have ties to those very same Big Tech companies, according to a report from Politico. 

FTC Chair Lina Khan sent a memo to staff this week in which she called for the agency to focus on power imbalances and address the “structural dominance” of big companies. The memo’s mention of “next generation technologies” implies a heavy emphasis on the Big Tech Masters of the Universe.

President Joe Biden referred to “trillionaires” not paying taxes on Friday, even though no American is worth a trillion dollars.

A horde of Hollywood elites, including Leonardo DeCaprio, Lady Gaga, Barbra Streisand, Justin Timberlake, Billie Eilish, and more, have signed onto an open letter demanding corporations like Facebook, Apple, WarnerMedia, Netflix, Walt Disney, Amazon, and ViacomCBS to pressure congress to pass the Joe Biden White House’s environmental agenda.

As part of an ongoing back-and-forth between billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk over their competing space ventures, Musk’s SpaceX has been accused by Bezos of flouting regulations — even though Bezos’s companies are also under scrutiny for breaking federal regulations.

According to a recent report, Amazon delivery drivers claim that AI-powered surveillance cameras in their vans are incorrectly penalizing them leading to loss of income. The cameras seem to blame Amazon’s delivery drivers for events outside of their control, such as being cut off in busy city traffic.

The FTC has alleged that hundreds of deals made by tech giants like Facebook and Google were not reviewed by merger watchdogs, fueling the companies’ unchecked growth. Events like gaining voting control of rivals, buying patents, and outright buyouts of small tech companies are a key part of the arsenal used by the largest Big Tech companies to maintain their stranglehold over the internet.

Democrats enrich companies like Amazon with “green energy” tax credits while posturing as economic populists, Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA) said.

Three-quarters of Americans believe that big tech companies avoid regulation by having too much influence in Washington, DC, according to a poll released Tuesday.

Amazon claimed in a recent filing with the FCC that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is a hypocrite who disregards government regulations as an ongoing rivalry over satellite launches continues to heat up.

The California Senate voted this week to regulate warehouse performance metrics, approving legislation that will require companies such as e-commerce giant Amazon to disclose productivity quotas at its warehouses. The bill would prohibit any quotas that prevent workers from taking state-mandated breaks or using the bathroom.

Amazon Studio’s series Expats is facing a barrage of negative media coverage, including accusations of “white privilege,” after star Nicole Kidman received a quarantine exemption to shoot in Hong Kong.

A recent lawsuit alleges that the virtual assistants of tech companies like Apple and Google are listening in on users even when they’re not supposed to.

Reuters reports that tech and e-commerce giant Amazon plans to take a more active approach to censoring what it considers rule violating content from its cloud hosting service. Websites and apps that rely on Amazon hosting will be forced to find another host or disappear from the internet. Amazon currently holds 40 percent of the cloud hosting market.

According to internal documents from the e-commerce and tech giant Amazon, the company purposefully forces six percent of its office employees out of the company each year, a metric Amazon calls “unregretted attrition.”

Amazon revealed plans to equip its delivery vans with high-tech surveillance cameras, now workers are arguing that the cameras are not only an invasion of privacy but a safety hazard also.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has attacked fellow billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos over a number of complaints filed by Bezos’ Blue Origin against SpaceX. According to Musk, Bezos retired from Amazon so he could make filing lawsuits against SpaceX his “full-time job.”

A recent article from the Atlantic outlines how the name Alexa has become so synonymous with Amazon’s personal assistant that the number of children being named Alexa is plummeting.

Tech and e-commerce giant Amazon reportedly plans to open multiple large physical stores across the United States that will operate similarly to department stores. Amazon is already the largest seller of clothing in the United States.

The fastest-growing sectors of the U.S. economy over the course of the pandemic have been courier services, data processing and hosting, warehousing, and trucking, the Commerce Department’s quarterly report on the services sector showed Thursday.

Amazon has announced a new policy that aims to reduce the number of lawsuits the company faces over products that injure customers. According to the policy, Amazon will now pay injured customers up to $1,000 when a third-party product causes property damage or personal injury. 

Tech and e-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly been awarded a secret cloud computing contract from the NSA worth up to $10 billion.

E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly offering workers prizes including $500,000 in cash, a car, and vacation packages in a lottery that employees can only enter by providing proof of coronavirus vaccination.

According to recent reports, some third-party sellers on Amazon are tracking down users who leave negative reviews and offering refunds or gift cards in an attempt to convince them to change their minds.

A recent report claims that workers at one of the largest call center firms in the world are facing additional monitoring that many call a violation of their privacy. Call center employees working from home are reportedly being pressured into installing surveillance equipment including cameras in their own homes.