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Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Thursday, June 22. I'm Nailibudu.

Today on the show, new protections for pregnant workers. Plus wheelchair users fight for easier air travel.

But first, the FTC goes after Amazon. That's today's one big thing.

The Federal Trade Commission is suing Amazon for allegedly tricking millions of customers into signing up for Amazon Prime and making it harder for people to cancel prime subscriptions.

The lawsuit was filed yesterday in the US District Court in the Western District of Washington State.

Axios' Ashley Gold is here with the big picture.

Ashley, the FTC said in its complaint that Amazon quote used manipulative, coercive or deceptive user interface designs known as dark patterns to trick customers into prime.

What exactly are those dark patterns?

That is sort of a fancy or dark word for what we see on tech platforms every day.

Which is when you want to do something that involves you stopping giving the tech company money or canceling a membership, they want to make it difficult.

They want to give you incentive to keep paying for the service they're giving you.

And those little ways tech companies make it harder and they make you click through more pages or jump through more hoops that would be considered a dark pattern.

What are the other details of this lawsuit?

FTC is alleging that Amazon is making it so you have more incentive to click on a link that then sides you up to be a prime member without you really knowing that that's what you're doing or maybe it clicks you through to a bunch of windows.

And then all of a sudden you're a prime member and you didn't even realize that's what was happening.

They're also very frustrated that if people want to cancel their prime memberships, they have to go through a multi-step process to do so.

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