"Amazon.com Inc. doubled the number of junk ads to boost profits and deleted internal communications to thwart a federal antitrust probe"<p>Everything the FTC is saying here is true.<p>I monitored customer engagement across services including ads. I was instructed via numerous ticket streams and by numerous direct and skip managers to forge and delete data, for much of 2021 and 2022 [1]. Those tickets were then augmented and destroyed. We were also informed of new "30-day retention policies" with respect to internal communication threads on platforms such as Slack in 2021 (in addition to Signal). It's all true.<p>Anyone who tried to push back, escalate to senior leadership, and/or do their job successfully without committing federal/international crimes such as this was fired.<p>Amazonians, don't forget to blow the whistle: <a href="https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower</a><p>[1]<a href="https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/380156/amazon-ads-reporting-outage-throws-off-calculation.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/380156/amazon...</a>