Alibaba to pay $600m to settle illegal drug sales allegations in US probe

Alibaba will pay six hundred million dollars to settle allegations from the US Justice Department that the company failed to prevent nearly eighty thousand illegal drug product sales on its platform. According to Al Jazeera, the settlement resolves a federal investigation into the e-commerce giant's content moderation lapses—a challenge that increasingly confronts major marketplace platforms operating at scale.

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