The article notes that many believe a large contributing factor is the unpopularity of new head of the FTC, Lina Khan. I don’t know how much credence to give th

The article notes that many believe a large contributing factor is the unpopularity of new head of the FTC, Lina Khan. I don’t know how much credence to give these claims directly, but when terms like “abusive” get thrown around to describe her leadership style it is easy to believe that her leadership is unpopular with at least a subset of FTC employees. Well before being appointed to the FTC, Lina Khan was making a name for herself in targeting Amazon for anti-trust measures - it’s widely accepted that she was in fact appointed in order to carry out anti-trust lawsuits against Amazon. So you have this situation where some people in the FTC believe the new chairperson wants to target Amazon, was appointed in order to target Amazon, and have reportedly witnessed the new chairperson being dogmatically intent on targeting Amazon even to the detriment of the culture and cohesion at the organization. It might be they feel their job has changed from “defending the public from corporations” to “attacking corporations, specifically Amazon”, and they don’t like that. (I am sure they are also being paid more at Amazon as well.)