Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle U.S. lawsuit that it 'tricked' people into Prime
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Amazon has agreed to pay a historic $2.5 billion to settle a landmark case over its Prime membership program. The U.S. government had alleged the company's web designs manipulated tens of millions of people into paying for subscriptions that were purposefully hard to cancel.
Amazon, without admitting wrongdoing, will pay $1 billion in civil penalties to the
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