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• Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

  October 22, 2025

  Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE8.FwGC.6M9rnks4nUaO&smid=url-share more ›

• The eyes of Amazon: a hidden workforce driving a vast surveillance system

  July 12, 2025

  How low-paid employees in India and Costa Rica power the system used to monitor warehouse workers https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-11-21/the-eyes-of-amazon-a-hidden-workforce-driving-a-vast-surveillance-system?utm_source=tbij-uncovered.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-sportswashing-showdown-of-the-summer&_bhlid=33af9b2c437869613133ad5fa751db47e4b3fe1f more ›

• ‘No Space For Bezos’: Venice Locals Protest Billionaire Jeff Bezos As Italian Wedding Looms

  June 13, 2025

  A group protesting Bezos’ upcoming Italian wedding, “No Space for Bezos,” held a protest in a Venetian town square on Friday. https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/06/13/no-space-for-bezos-venice-locals-protest-billionaire-jeff-bezos-as-italian-wedding-looms/?utm_source=BLUESKY&utm_medium=social&utm_content=17291889603&utm_campaign=sprinklrForbesBluesky more ›

• Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

  March 15, 2025

  If that’s not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that… more ›

• A FILM BY STEPHEN MAING AND BRETT STORY

  January 7, 2025

  Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.… more ›

• Mapping Amazon

  June 28, 2024

  State and local governments in the United States have already awarded almost $3 billion (and more that is hidden) in economic development subsidies to Amazon. While some of those subsidies,… more ›

• Prime Gouging

  August 7, 2023

  Key Findings Amazon set prices of products during the COVID-19 pandemic to levels that would be considered violations of price gouging laws in many states. Amazon has misled the public,… more ›

• Amazon is buying One Medical for around $3.9 billion

  July 25, 2022

  Amazon is buying primary health care company One Medical for roughly $3.9 billion, the companies announced Thursday morning. The company says the deal will allow it to “reinvent” health care and “dramatically… more ›

• Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap

  July 1, 2022

  Near a sharp bend on the Itaquaí River, perched on a steep muddy bank, a lone wooden structure marks the last outpost of a fragile resistance. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/01/amazon-brazil-drugs-fish-logging-dom-phillips-bruno-pereira more ›

• Amazon Prime Is an Economy-Distorting Lie

  June 6, 2021

  Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Last week, the Washington, D.C.… more ›