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Can anyone stop the french fry cartel?
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68% Informative
A potato cartel has been accused of colluding to raise the price of all of our french fries.
Plaintiffs have alleged in a set of lawsuits that the largest potato product manufacturers in the country put their sensitive market data into the same third -party software.
There have been big lawsuits and government investigations into how this is happening with our rent.
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58
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48
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68
Article tone
informal
Language
English
Language complexity
38
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not offensive
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not hateful
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Time-value
short-lived
External references
5
https://thehill.com/business/5002158-lawsuits-target-potato-cartel-enabled-by-price-data-aggregators/https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-six-large-landlords-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harms-millionshttps://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2025/2/klobuchar-colleagues-introduce-antitrust-legislation-to-take-on-algorithmic-price-fixing-bring-down-costshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3692https://www.classaction.org/news/lawsuit-claims-national-potato-promotion-board-major-potato-processors-illegally-conspired-to-fix-frozen-potato-product-prices
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