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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.”

YouTube said certain types of misleading and deceptive content with serious risk of harm were not allowed.

The lawsuit was filed in California by the Federal Trade Commission and seven US states, and accused Ticketmaster of deceptive practices, including advertising lower prices that were actually unavailable.

TikTok said it had implemented additional safety and security measures ahead of the elections and continued to "aggressively counter deceptive behaviour".

“Ballot proposals should be able to stand on their own merit instead of a misleading description or another deceptive tactic to gain support,” Moss said.