3, 2026 The move follows a report that these online shopping tools are intentionally making it difficult to buy American-made on their platforms. The chatbots run on artificial intelligence on Walmart and Amazon’s retail platforms are getting some attention from the U. “If Americans want to buy products made in America, Amazon and Walmart should be helping them, not giving away their business to foreign knockoffs,” Sen. Indeed, the Columbia report – produced by a policy center co-founded by former FTC Chair Lina Khan – makes some concerning allegations about what country-of-origin product information these retail chatbots have access to, how they sort it, and how they ultimately display search results to consumers. Researchers even documented how Walmart’s bot told them that while flagging the long known Made in USA fraud on its platform is technically feasible, but “the practical pressure to build proactive compliance systems has been limited.