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Amazon to Halt New Sign‑ups for Mechanical Turk Platform

Amazon announced that it will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk service. Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing platform that matches requesters with remote Amazon announced that it will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk

service. Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing platform that matches requesters with remote workers. The policy change applies only to prospective users; existing participants are not mentioned as affected. No specific date for the implementation of the restriction was

provided. Amazon did not disclose the reasons behind the decision. The announcement was reported in a recent news release. Industry observers note that the move could limit access for businesses seeking gig labor. Mechanical Turk will continue to operate for

those already signed up.

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