Trust issues: Amazon could be fractured by impending FTC lawsuit, reports suggest

Amazon could face another major lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission later this month — this time with the potential to break up parts of the company.

That’s according to news reports by Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal this week.

Amazon runs the world’s largest online platform for sellers; the company is also a seller on that same platform, through its own brands. That means a clothing company, for example, must compete with Amazon’s clothing brands.

Critics argue Amazon has an unfair advantage by being able to access competitors’ performance — kind of like letting referees play in the soccer games they observe. Amazon, however, has repeatedly disputed that accusation.