The new excerpts unveiled Thursday allege executives at the e-commerce giant intentionally deleted communication by using a feature on the popular app Signal that makes messages disappear. By doing this, the FTC said Amazon “destroyed more than two years” worth of communications from June 2019 to “at least early 2022” despite instructions it gave Amazon not to do so.
In a prepared statement Amazon spokesperson Tim Doyle called the FTC’s claim “baseless and irresponsible.”
The FTC didn’t have login credentials for those Amazon employees’ accounts. What it had was a court order for Amazom to preserve documents and communication. If they can prove Amazon management intentionally defied that court order, that would be a serious crime.