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Why FTC under Lina Khan is raising ‘dark patterns’ legal war with Amazon

By Christopher Hutton
Published July 5, 2023 7:09pm ET
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Why FTC under Lina Khan is raising ‘dark patterns’ legal war with Amazon
A monitor displays Amazon.com Inc. stock information at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Sep. 4, 2018. Amazon.com Inc. briefly became America's second trillion-dollar company on Tuesday after adding $434 billion to its market cap this year. | (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg)

The Federal Trade Commission has turned an increased focus toward deceptive web design practices that play on human emotions, also known as “dark patterns.”

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