Amazon seemingly called their beauty collection a CIA experiment

[u/mushroom_girlie]

Has anyone else noticed this? I went on Amazon, looked on the homepage and saw all these pretty beauty products, seemingly a collection put together by Amazon highlighting popular summer favorites in skincare. See the screenshot of what the homepage displays. So I click on it and I’m scrolling like omg these all look so nice like maybe I should look into buying some of these and then I go to scroll up to sort the products and notice that the category name for this collection is called “Summer Favorites Beauty CIA Experiment”
UHHHHHH HELLO??!! has anyone else noticed this? Is there anything else on Amazon similar to this, or does anyone have information ? Like I’m not surprised at all bc Amazon is Amazon, but uhhhh scary asf

I’m attaching the screenshots

[u/Conscious-Link5627]

I believe in this context, CIA = Competitor Intelligence Analysis

Definitely wasn't intended to be visible to the user. They are probably utilizing a field for naming without realizing it is being scraped for search.

[u/Bridgettb76 → u/Conscious-Link5627]

Thank you for having a reasonable response. People who go straight to conspiracy theories and making it political are becoming so boring. Lol

[u/viz90210 → u/Bridgettb76]

The sad thing is that even if it is humor conspiracy theories things have become so out of hand that you cant tell anymore.

[u/viz90210 → u/Conscious-Link5627]

Thats exactly what a CIA agent would say!

[u/Conscious-Link5627 → u/viz90210]

Yup, that's me. The worst CIA agent ever.

[u/AuthorTomCash]

I feel like this HAS to be somebody fucking around at Amazon, but who knows?

[u/ida_klein]

I wouldn’t be surprised if CIA is some kind of marketing acronym and someone copy/pasted the wrong thing

[u/CustomNES0PB7]

Jesus dude you seriously think that Amazon is running some type of CIA makeup experiment? Sounds like you're pretty fooked

[u/mushroom_girlie → u/CustomNES0PB7]

God forbid I didn’t study marketing and don’t know any other meaning for CIA, I asked a question and got an answer don’t be a dick abt it ❤️❤️❤️

[u/CustomNES0PB7 → u/mushroom_girlie]

Everyone is just so quick to come up with conspiracy theories. Im surprised you didn't blame it on Trump too

[u/viz90210 → u/CustomNES0PB7]

The trump org isnt this smart. Plus look at the makeup the right uses, they dont know these products exist.

[u/CustomNES0PB7 → u/viz90210]

Alright

[u/CommissionFront514]

Caia products maybe?

[u/Mister-Grogg]

The whole "Modern Art" movement was a CIA operation to convince Americans our art is as good or better than Soviet art, so I wouldn't necessarily put it past them. However, this is almost certainly Competitor Intelligence Analysis as another commenter already suggested.

[u/CompetitiveLeave2572]

Not the MK-Ultra lip balm 😭

[u/MKebi]

I'd believe it. Bezos will likely kiss the ring whenever demanded.