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E-commerce giant Amazon will reportedly pay $61.7 million to settle allegations by the FTC that the company failed to pay Flex delivery drivers the full amount of tips given to them by customers. An FTC official commented: “Rather than passing along 100% of customers’ tips to drivers, as it had promised to do, Amazon used the money itself. Our action today returns to drivers the tens of millions of dollars in tips that Amazon misappropriated, and requires Amazon to get drivers’ permission before changing its treatment of tips in the future.”

A nine-year-old boy named Ryan Kaji has been named as the highest-paid YouTuber of 2020, earning a total of $29.5 million this year.

In a recent article, the Washington Post has provided an insight into Facebook’s secretive campaign to battle recent antitrust lawsuits.

The FTC has ordered nine of the largest technology companies in the world to disclose data about their operations and business practices. Amazon, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, and Google parent company Alphabet are amongst the companies at the center of the FTC’s investigation.

Recently filed antitrust lawsuits against social media giant Facebook claim that the company engaged in illegal tactics to stifle competition, including subjecting companies that refused to be bought out to the “wrath of Mark” Zuckerberg.

The FTC and 48 states are set to launch a legal assault on Facebook over claims of antitrust violations. The lawsuits seek to break up Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire.

The FTC has warned consumers of an increase in robocalls from scammers pretending to be representatives from tech giant Apple as well as Amazon.

A group of state attorneys general, led by the New York Attorney General Letitia James, is reportedly on track to file antitrust charges against tech giant Facebook in early December with a focus on the company’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram.

The Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok has reportedly removed a number of anti-Trump videos after an investigation showed that many of the creators were failing to disclose that they were paid by a marketing company for the videos, a violation of FTC rules for paid content on social media.

Facebook’s lawyers claimed in a recent document reviewed by the  Wall Street Journal that a government breakup of Facebook from Instagram and WhatsApp would defy the law, cost billions of dollars, and harm consumers. According to the report, the document states: “A ‘breakup’ of Facebook is thus a complete nonstarter.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified over the course of two days this week before the FTC as part of an antitrust investigation into the social media giant.

The attorneys general of New York and California will investigate the market dominance of Amazon and its online marketplace in partnership with the FTC.

Social media network Twitter disclosed on Monday that after receiving a draft complaint from the FTC, it expects to be fined as much as $250 million for collecting personal information from users for security reasons and then using the data for targeted advertising purposes.

A group of privacy organizations say that TikTok is in violation of a law that protects children’s privacy on the Internet, as well as an FTC consent decree.

Social media start-up Parler is once again punching above its weight class, saying that Facebook ought to pay more than the $5 billion fine recently approved by a federal judge for the company’s violations of user privacy.

The estranged wife of female astronaut Anne McClain has been charged with lying to federal authorities about her spouse improperly accessing her bank account. The accusation was reported as NASA’s first-ever space crime allegation.

According to a recent report from the FTC, “smart locks” produced by Tapplock are leaking users’ personal information and not delivered the security they promise.

Oracle Executive Vice President Ken Glueck told Breitbart News in an interview on Wednesday that Google committed a “bank robbery” by allegedly stealing 11,000 lines of Oracle’s JAVA API code to develop its Android operating system.

The University of Phoenix announced on Tuesday that it will cancel $141 million in student loan debt. The for-profit school’s announcement is part of a deal that settles allegations that the university displayed false advertisements in 2012.

31 advocacy groups are pressuring the FTC this week to investigate how so-called “kidtech” and digital media companies advertise to children and collect their data.

Amazon’s massive cloud computing business is reportedly being scrutinized by U.S. antitrust enforcers, according to individuals familiar with the situation.

The Federal Communications Commission has collected just $6,790 since it began fining robocallers and other telemarketing violators in 2015, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.

In leaked internal audio, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg states that if presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren attempts to break up Facebook, the firm would “go to the mat and fight.” Zuckerberg adds that a legal fight with the government would “suck for us.”

Google has hired Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-OH) chief of staff Friday to serve as its chief lobbyist in Washington, DC.

According to a recent report, the Justice Department is opening an antitrust investigation into the Masters of the Universe at Facebook.

 The FTC claims that dating site Match.com used fake accounts to lure almost 500,000 people to become paying subscribers on the popular dating website. The subscribers joined the company’s paid premium service within 24 hours of receiving a message from accounts the FTC claims Match had already identified as “fraudulent.”

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter on Tuesday to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging its five commissioners to release the agency’s 2012 report which detailed Google’s anticompetitive policies. 

A recent report from the Wall Street Journal claims that the parent company of social media platform Snapchat kept a dossier on Facebook’s aggressive tactics called “Project Voldemort.” According to the Journal, executives from Snap Inc. are now working with the FTC to detail Facebook’s anti-competitive business practices.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wrote in an op-ed Sunday that for Americans to protect their privacy, they must “hold big tech accountable.”

A group of FTC investigators has reportedly begun interviewing small businesses that sell products on Amazon to determine if the e-commerce giant is purposefully manipulating its market to hurt competitors, according to Bloomberg.