Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are calling out the FTC over what appears to be an attempt to bully an independent auditor into condemning Twitter for privacy violations.
The FTC has initiated an investigation into OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, over allegations of causing harm by publishing false information about individuals along with potential data security issues.
The FTC is set to file a landmark antitrust lawsuit against e-commerce giant Amazon. The federal agency believes Amazon uses its market dominance to unfairly disadvantage sellers on the platform who don’t use its logistics services.
The White House and Democrat-controlled federal government made a big effort this week to demonstrate to the public that they are taking the lead on AI regulation.
The FTC claimed on Wednesday that Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order and has caused more harm, especially with children. The commission is now proposing changes to the order that would impose stricter oversight and limitations on Facebook. The company is firing back with both barrels, calling the proposed changes a “political stunt.”
The FTC under Joe Biden appointee Lina Khan is taking a woke line on AI technology, pledging today to take an approach to AI regulation centered around “civil rights” and “equal opportunity” in addition to the standard FTC provinces of consumer protection and competition.
The FTC’s efforts to block XBox owner Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, one one the world’s largest video game companies, faces a major hurdle in the continued global dominance of Sony over the video game console market.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said the JCPA would create a cartel between government, Big Tech, and media to censor outlets such as Breitbart News.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya will keynote a speech at an organization that preaches the “end of capitalism,” open borders, the Green New Deal, reparations, and the abolition of immigration enforcement agencies.
The FTC under Lina Khan has been reprimanded by the agency’s inspector general for bringing in unpaid “experts” and consultants, creating potential legal and compliance risks including conflicts of interest.
Democrat FTC chairwoman Lina Khan and FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter both spoke at an event last week hosted by a Marxist-linked organization, the Law and Political Economy Project, in which they discussed, among other things, “anti-racist antitrust” and how the FTC can be used to “shape markets and economic outcomes.”
FTC chairwoman Lina Khan, one of the highest-ranking federal appointments made by the Biden administration, will today speak at the Law and Political Economy project (LPE) of Yale Law School, an academic organization that has a syllabus on Soviet law, and hosts events with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which has become increasingly aggressive in its enforcement since Biden appointee Lina Khan took over as chairwoman, has filed a civil suit against Walmart regarding alleged fraud in its money transfer services.
The Biden-Harris administration on Monday opened an investigation into retailers, and not itself, to scrutinize the supply chain crisis.
A former Google employee who became infamous for her far-left activism at the tech giant, Meredith Whittaker, is set to join the FTC, which progressive activists hope to use as a regulatory sledgehammer to get what they want from Silicon Valley.
FTC Chair Lina Khan sent a memo to staff this week in which she called for the agency to focus on power imbalances and address the “structural dominance” of big companies. The memo’s mention of “next generation technologies” implies a heavy emphasis on the Big Tech Masters of the Universe.
Robert Bork Jr., son of the late Robert Bork, said FTC Chair Lina Khan views antitrust law as a way to impose “woke standards” on business.
The new Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), an agency with the power to threaten corporations with costly antitrust fines among other regulatory burdens, once co-authored a paper with a progressive scholar who advocates the use of antitrust law to solve “structural racism.”