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Amazon’s Planned Purchase of MGM Faces FTC Scrutiny

Commission secures antitrust review after talks with Justice Department, and as Amazon critic Lina Khan takes the FTC’s helm.During recent interagency negotiations, the FTC secured the right to review the Amazon-MGM deal, the people familiar with the matter said. The FTC pushed for jurisdiction over the merger review because it already has an open, wide-ranging antitrust investigation into Amazon’s business practices, the people said.An Amazon spokesman had no immediate comment. An FTC spokeswom

Amazon’s Planned Purchase of MGM Faces FTC Scrutiny

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