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Oct 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Associated Press Reuters Fox BusinessAug 14 2019
News
Democrats Join Trump in Seeking Balance by Policing Speech
The constitutional amendment they support, like the president’s plan to regulate social media, trusts the government to moderate our political debate.
Donald Trump wants to regulate social media, while Democrats want to regulate political spending. Both are prepared to sacrifice freedom of speech on the altar of fairness, balance, and equality.
The president's plan for fighting
ReasonMay 28 2020
News
President Trump Signs Executive Order Regulating Social Media Companies
President Trump intends to sign an executive order on Thursday regarding social media and big technology companies. The order comes on the heels of a fact-check on the president from Twitter, related to President Trump’s sentiment regarding voting by mail.
The president is using section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to back up his grievance with social media companies, a
TownhallAug 21 2022
News
Shots fired in US schools spiked dramatically last year, gun violence report finds
No school year in the U.S. in nearly a decade saw as much gunfire as the 2021-2022 academic calendar, a report released Friday shows.
The report was published by Everytown For Gun Safety, a nonpartisan group advocating against gun violence. It shows the last school year, between Aug. 1 and May 31, saw 193 incidents of gunfire, more than doubling the total of the previous year.
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