Last week, the Federal Trade Commission sued one of the biggest tech companies in the

world, Amazon.

The Federal Trade Commission in 17 states have brought a sweeping lawsuit against Amazon,

alleging that the company abused its power to raise prices for shoppers, and also levy

all sorts of high fees against businesses that happen to sell on its platform.

I asked my colleague, Dana Maddie-Oli, about the lawsuit.

How long is the lawsuit?

It's 172 pages, it's not light reading.

How long did it take you to read all 172 pages of this lawsuit?

Oh, I had like a cram session the night it came out and it just stayed up until I read

it.

Did anything jump out at you?

Yeah, so there was something like pretty mysterious about this lawsuit when it was filed.

There was a section called Project Nessie.

I can't tell you how many cartridges of ink I went through printing this because it was

almost fully redacted.

So this like peaked to your curiosity?

I think it peaked everyone's curiosity.

And did you find out what Project Nessie is?

We did.

Welcome to the journal, our show about money, business, and power.

I'm Kate Leimbaugh, it's Friday, October 6th.

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