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Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle U.S. lawsuit that it ‘tricked’ people into Prime

Amazon Prime pedicab delivery person on New York City Streets, Manhattan.

Federal regulators say Amazon has agreed to pay a historic sum to resolve their allegations that its web designs manipulated millions of people into paying for Prime subscriptions, which were also purposefully hard to cancel. Affected shoppers are slated to receive payouts.

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