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Why Amazon actually got off easy despite ‘historic’ $2.5 billion Prime deceptive practices settlement
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Why Amazon actually got off easy despite ‘historic’ $2.5 billion Prime deceptive practices settlement

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Big Tech

Amazon to pay $2.5 billion, one of the largest FTC settlements in history, to mitigate claims it tricked millions of people into signing up for Prime

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Law

A jury will look at whether Amazon tricked customers into joining Prime — and made it hard to leave

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Ticketmaster accused by FTC of conspiring with brokers to buy concert tickets at face price, get a kickback at higher resale

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
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ChatGPT went from homework helper to confidant to ‘suicide coach,’ parents testify in Congress after teen’s death

By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
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AI

FTC launches inquiry into the great teenage chatbot companion problem

By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated Press
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Law

Courts once again bend to Trump’s will, upholding his power to fire a FTC commissioner because he thought she disagreed with his ‘administration’s priorities’

By Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press and Eva Roytburg
September 8, 2025
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Tech

Match Group agrees to pay $14 million to the FTC for misleading ads

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Biden-era FTC rule on ‘click-to-cancel’ blocked at 11th hour because of failure to do preliminary analysis

By Michelle Chapman and The Associated Press
July 9, 2025
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Finance

Fortnite players can cash in on another $126 million in refunds after being ‘tricked’ into unwanted purchases—here’s how

By Wyatte Grantham-Philips and The Associated Press
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Ex-FTC commissioner accuses former chair Lina Khan of ‘procedural shenanigans’ that iced M&A activity

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