Amazon.com used a series of illegal strategies to boost profits at its online retail empire, including an algorithm that pushed up prices U.S. households paid by more than $1 billion, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission detailed in a new court filing on Nov. 2.
The FTC lawsuit was filed in September but many details were withheld until the new filing when a version of the lawsuit with fewer redactions was made public in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
