Amazon to face US federal court trial: Here’s why FTC claims e-commerce giant tricked its customers

US-based e-commerce giant, Amazon, is set to have a trial at a federal court in Seattle, United States, later this week after the government’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleged that the company has tricked hundreds of millions of consumers who use its online shopping services, reported the news portal The New York Times on Monday, 22 September 2025.

In its lawsuit, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) claimed that the e-commerce giant had tricked millions of people who signed up to Amazon’s Prime membership program.