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The agency, which protects consumers from unfair business practices, accused Amazon of duping people into automatically renewing their Amazon Prime subscriptions through “manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs.”

Combine “There Will Be Blood’s” voracious oil baron and “The Master’s” manipulative spiritual guru with this movie’s America-first nativists and you have Anderson’s unholy trinity of characters who have corrupted our founders’ ideals.

"On merit too, it is held that impugned transactions cannot be classified as manipulative or fraudulent transactions or unfair trade practices," the order notes.

"He is a highly manipulative individual who was able to offend in plain sight and preyed on the innocence of his victims," the detective said in a statement.

The backlash against the segment was fierce and immediate, with critics calling Acosta “ghoulish” and “manipulative.”