The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleged in a Thursday court filing that Amazon executives, including founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy, discussed “sensitive business matters” in now-erased text messages that could have been used as evidence in the FTC’s ongoing antitrust case against Amazon.
According to the Thursday filing, senior Amazon leaders used the encrypted Signal messaging app from April 2019 to May 2022 and continued to delete messages through the app’s disappearing message feature — even when the FTC was investigating Amazon.
“Amazon executives deleted many Signal messages during Plaintiffs’ pre-Complaint investigation, and Amazon did not instruct employees to preserve Signal messages until over fifteen months after Amazon knew
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