What Lina Khan Could Mean for Amazon
The FTC nominee’s Twitter account offers a few hints.
Hi there, it’s Tae from the Bloomberg Opinion team. Federal Trade Commission nominee Lina Khan is an exceptionally vocal critic of Amazon.com Inc. If confirmed, the legal scholar would play a big role in shaping the agency’s antitrust enforcement policy—which makes her current social media presence all the more interesting.
Despite nearly two months passing since the Biden administration nominated her for the position, the tweet pinned to the top of her Twitter profile is her seminal 2017 Yale Law Journal article “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” which calls the company’s behavior anticompetitive. That could be a very bad sign for Amazon.