Company Editor

"amazon": {
    "names": [
        "Amazon",
        "Amazon.com, Inc.",
        "AMZN"
    ],
    "comment": "Amazon is an American online retail and tech conglomerate which has funded climate change denial groups [1], issued propaganda to local news stations [2][3], sent thousands of items of unused stock to landfill [4][5], avoided billions in tax [6], violated privacy laws [7][8], discriminated against black and female employees [9][10], mistreated workers [11][12], aggressively opposed unionisation [13][14][15] and engaged in anticompetitive practices [16][17][18].",
    "sources": {
        "1": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190710185008/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/climate/nyt-climate-newsletter-cei.html",
        "2": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200604102522/https://news.avclub.com/oh-cool-amazon-is-dictating-the-local-news-now-1843705714",
        "3": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200528144830/https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/4ayvwb/local-news-stations-run-propaganda-segments-scripted-and-produced-by-amazon",
        "4": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210621235131/https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds",
        "5": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210621204203/https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/19387292.amazon-dunfermline-company-denies-denies-claim-thousands-items-sent-landfill/",
        "6": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/02/new-study-deems-amazon-worst-for-aggressive-tax-avoidance",
        "7": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210808141701/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-30/amazon-given-record-888-million-eu-fine-for-data-privacy-breach",
        "8": "https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65772154",
        "9": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220217123550/https://www.king5.com/article/news/community/facing-race/current-and-former-black-amazon-employees-claim-racial-discrimination/281-8e91902f-c8e0-41c0-8809-e4413a58f859",
        "10": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220221113851/https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/2/26/22297554/amazon-race-black-diversity-inclusion",
        "11": "https://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-warehouses-2013-8",
        "12": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/amazon-the-shocking-911-calls-from-inside-its-warehouses",
        "13": "https://gizmodo.com/amazons-aggressive-anti-union-tactics-revealed-in-leake-1829305201",
        "14": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201031231943/https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/amazon_coronavirus_firing/",
        "15": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201216204639/https://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-tracks-unionization-risk-with-heat-map-2020-1?r=US&IR=T",
        "16": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080607093312/http://www.publishingnews.co.uk/pn/pno-news-display.asp?K=e2008040310393759&TAG=&CID=&PGE=&sg9t=cbd2a5be26893c7c10ff5b7ccc309f6f",
        "17": "https://archive.today/20191219195205/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/technology/amazon-sellers.html",
        "18": "https://www.npr.org/2020/10/06/920882893/how-are-apple-amazon-facebook-google-monopolies-house-report-counts-the-ways"
    },
    "sourceNotes": {},
    "tags": [
        "retail",
        "ecommerce",
        "tech",
        "unsustainable",
        "discrimination",
        "poor working conditions",
        "anticompetitive",
        "antiunion"
    ],
    "score": 5,
    "ownedBy": [],
    "logoUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Amazon_logo.svg",
    "siteUrl": "https://amazon.com",
    "updatedAt": "2024-01-07T15:59:06.010Z"
},