Sen. Warren Urges Amazon Breakup, India Retailers Want Probe

Sen. Warren Urges Amazon Breakup, India Retailers Want Probe
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 8, 2021. Evelyn Hockstein/Getty Images
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NEW DELHI—Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called for breaking up Amazon.com Inc. and Indian retailers demanded a government probe of the company after a Reuters investigation showed the e-commerce giant had copied products and rigged search results in India.

The Reuters report reviewing thousands of internal Amazon documents, found that the U.S. company ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoffs and manipulating search results to boost its own private brands in India, one of the company’s largest growth markets.