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May 12 2022
News
Senate Democrats’ imaginary majority
Every day, it seems, brings another reminder of the severe limitations of Democrats’ illusory majority in a 50-50 Senate.
First Democratic leaders tossed Covid relief from a Ukraine aid bill at the behest of Republicans who were threatening a filibuster. Then the party entertained giving the GOP a politically volatile vote on reversing the Biden administration’s border policy. And
PoliticoJun 11 2019
News
Will Antitrust Action Against Big Tech Resolve Anything?
Being a big company is not a crime. What problem are we trying to fix?
Well, it was bound to happen eventually. After near three years of all-out rhetorical war against tech giants, for politically-shifting sins including bigness, too much censorship, not enough censorship, data hoarding, and being too irresistible, policymakers are ready to move beyond cheap talk and start slapping
ReasonMar 11 2021
Analysis
Biden’s antitrust crusaders can’t crusade without Congress
US president Joe Biden is poised to promote two of the country’s most prominent anti-monopoly crusaders to top jobs in his administration. The moves signal that Biden is serious about cracking down on dominant companies that include Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple. But for the president’s trustbusting champions to make a real impact, they’ll need support from Congress.
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QuartzOct 27 2021
News
Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures
Federal Trade Commission staffers have begun looking into disclosures that Facebook Inc.’s FB -0.87% internal company research had identified ill effects from its products, according to people familiar with the matter.
Officials are looking into whether Facebook research documents indicate that it might have violated a 2019 settlement with the agency over privacy concerns, for which the
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 11 2020
Headline Roundup
Perspectives: Facebook Sued Over Potential Antitrust Violations
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and attorneys general from 46 states, Washington D.C. and Guam filed lawsuits against Facebook Wednesday. The suits accuse the social media giant of illegally suppressing competition to gain popularity among potential users. Facebook allegedly broke competition law by purchasing popular social media app Instagram in 2012 and messaging app WhatsApp in 2014;
Wired National Review (News) New York Times (Opinion)Dec 05 2021
Opinion
Biden blames soaring gas prices on Big Oil as he keeps up his war on fossil fuels
President Biden is the kind of man who deliberately would steer his car into a ditch, crawl from the wreckage, and then probe the ditch for criminal conduct.
Such nonsense mirrors Biden’s recent instructions to the Federal Trade Commission to indulge his fanciful conspiracy theory: the U.S. petroleum industry's plots and plans have fueled vertiginous rises in energy prices. Citing "
Fox News (Opinion)Jun 28 2021
Headline Roundup
Federal Court Dismisses Facebook Antitrust Lawsuits
On Monday, a federal court dismissed antitrust lawsuits against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and more than 40 states. Judge James E. Boasberg dismissed the states' lawsuit, which claimed Facebook had an unfair monopoly and said it should sell popular applications Instagram and WhatsApp, because too much time had passed since Facebook bought the companies in 2012 and 2014.
CNBC Washington Examiner New York Times (News)May 08 2018
Headline Roundup
Melania Trump Accused of Plagiarizing Obama-era Booklet for 'Be Best' Initiative
A booklet released as a part of First Lady Melania Trump's 'Be Best' campaign copies directly from an Obama-era brochure published by the FTC in 2014. While the 'Be Best' website initially said Trump wrote the pamphlet, it now attributes authorship to the FTC and says that the First Lady is promoting it.
The Hill Newsweek Washington TimesJul 22 2019
News
How Equifax's $700 million settlement could end up compensating you for ID theft
Americans will now get compensation for losses tied to one of the biggest data security failures ever.
Credit-reporting company Equifax has agreed to pick up the tab in a proposed deal with the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and 50 states and territories to settle allegations that it did not implement sufficient security measures to protect its network.
USA TODAYJun 01 2023
Headline Roundup
Amazon to Pay Privacy Violation Penalties of $31 Million
On Wednesday, Amazon agreed to pay $31 million in privacy violation charges involving its doorbell camera Ring and voice-controlled assistant Alexa.
Key Details: The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice charged that Amazon deceived parents and violated a child privacy law by keeping for years the location and voice data on children recorded by Alexa, Amazon's popular
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