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The Latest Breaking News from Lina Khan

FTC watchdogs are coming for Facebook

Accused of breaking its $5 billion promise, Facebook is on the backfoot

Salon

Lina Khan says that decades-old lessons from IBM could guide the way the government regulates A.I. today

The champion of hipster antitrust points to the past for for how A.I. disruption can be “for the benefit of all.”

Fortune

Judge Dismisses Trump Lawsuit Against The New York Times

Plus: Senate Judiciary Committee considers the EARN IT Act, the FTC has A.I. in its crosshairs, and more...

Reason

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Don't Give the Federal Trade Commission a Big Budget Just To Punish Big Firms

FTC Chair Lina Khan has an agenda that's against big companies, not for consumer well-being.

Reason

Feds Want to Penalize Overly Complicated Subscription Cancellations at $50,000 a Pop

A government big enough to "solve" your minor irritants will do plenty of other stuff you don't like.

Reason

Canceling Netflix and other subscriptions could get a lot easier — thanks to new FTC proposal

A new FTC proposal is aiming to make canceling a subscription as straightforward as signing up — this could impact everything from Netflix to Planet Fitness.

Tom’s Guide

FTC introduces proposal to make US subscriptions easier to cancel

Regulators plan to put an end to businesses ‘tricking’ customers into paying for services they no longer want

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Still trying to quit that gym membership? The FTC is proposing a rule that could help

The Federal Trade Commission gets thousands of complaints a year from customers trapped in memberships they don't want. Its "Click to Cancel" proposal aims to change that, Chair Lina Khan tells NPR.

WEKU

FTC Investigating, but Not Thwarting, Amazon Acquisition of One Medical

Since the Federal Trade Commission didn't sue in time, the deal went through. But will FTC Chair Lina Khan keep trying to attack Amazon for its bigness?

Reason

FTC Commissioner Resigns To Protest Agency's 'Disregard for the Rule of Law'

Chair Lina Khan has flouted the rule of law and due process, Commissioner Christine Wilson wrote.

Reason

Republican regulator rips Lina Khan in ‘noisy exit,’ accuses ‘hipster antitrust’ boss of breaking the law by having opinions on Mark Zuckerberg

Khan once wrote that Zuckerberg should never be allowed to make another acquisition. Now we know the strength of internal dissent over that.

Fortune

Meta sparked a bitter fight inside the FTC

A bitter fight inside among FTC commissioners over Meta's acquisition of a VR company spilled into the public realm.

Fortune

Lawmakers Use Kid Safety as Excuse To Violate Adults' Rights

Plus: New York "hate speech" law is likely unconstitutional, FTC Commissioner quits because of chair Lina Khan's antics, and more...

Reason

FTC Chair's Activism Prompts a Commissioner to Resign

FTC Commissioner Christine WIlson is resigning from the Commission. (Updated)

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The FTC's Antitrust Radicals Are Rebuked Again in Federal Court

The FTC is trying to seize new powers to regulate the economy.

Reason

More Cracks in the FTC's Aggressive Antitrust Plans, as Court Refuses To Ban Meta From Buying V.R. Fitness App

Plus: Trump teases new avenues of authoritarianism, interest rates raised again, and more...

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: The FTC is pushing new rights for workers. Big business is pitching a fit, of course

Whenever a government agency proposes a regulation that might help workers by reining in an employer abuse, you can count on some heavy breathing from the big business lobby.

USA Today Sports Media Group

The FTC reportedly sued Microsoft to stop European bargaining

A new report says the FTC lawsuit against the Microsoft Activision deal happened to try and preempt the European commission’s decision

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Salon

Egg industry accused of organized theft

Egg producers are using inflation, avian flu as an "opportunity to extract egregious profits," group says

Reason

Elizabeth Warren, Jamaal Bowman Want To Give Lina Khan the Power To Impose Rent Control on the Whole Country

Warren and fellow progressive Democrats have asked President Joe Biden to use the FTC, HUD, or maybe the FHFA to impose nationwide rent control.

The Independent UK

Microsoft braces to fight FTC over Activision Blizzard deal

Microsoft is headed for a battle with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the U.S. will block the tech giant’s planned takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard

Businessweek

Taylor Swift Debacle Rekindles Ticketmaster Antitrust Worries

The company’s 2010 merger with Live Nation remains under federal oversight, so accusations of market-power abuse from the ticketing flap could reopen that case.

Reason

Why Does Funding Government Take $1.7 Trillion and 4,000 Pages?

Plus: Title 42 order termination is on hold, the FTC vs. Meta, and more...

Fortune

Why Washington will become the epicenter of Big Tech in 2023

All three branches of government are poised to exert influence over the tech industry next year.

Tribune News Service

Microsoft says it offered FTC consent decree on 'Call of Duty'

Microsoft Corp. said that antitrust regulators shrugged off its offer to make "Call of Duty" available to gaming rivals — including Sony Group Corp. — as part of its $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard Inc.

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