A Wall Street Journal investigation found that Amazon’s China business “aggressively recruited Chinese manufacturers and merchants to sell to consumers outside the country. And these sellers, in turn, represent a high proportion of problem listings found on the site.” From the report: The Journal earlier this year uncovered 10,870 items for sale between May and August that have been declared unsafe…
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Amazon’s $1.5 Million Political Gambit Backfires in Seattle City Council Election
Seattle voters, in a rebuke to heavy corporate campaign spending by Amazon.com, have kept progressives firmly in control of their city council, reviving chances for a tax on big businesses that the tech giant helped fend off last year. From a report: Amazon poured a record $1.5 million into a Super PAC run by the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce to…
Are Amazon’s ‘Ring’ Cameras Exacerbating Societal Inequality?
In one of America’s top city for property crime, the Atlantic examines the “porch pirate” of San Francisco’s Potrero Hill. It’s an 8,000-word long read about how one of the neighborhood’s troubled long-time residents “entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance,” in a town where the public hospital she was born in is now named after Mark…