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By Yaël Ossowski For the last five weeks, an agency of the Federal government has attempted to convince a judge that Meta should be forcibly broken up for parts. FTC...

In Washington, D.C. this week, government lawyers wrapped up their antitrust lawsuit arguing that Instagram should be broken off from its parent company. The same for WhatsApp. The company Meta,...

Meta had its first day in court against the Federal Trade Commission in what will be the second-largest antitrust trial of the decade. At stake is Meta’s ownership of both Instagram and...

THERE IS (STILL) NO SOCIAL MEDIA MONOPOLY WASHINGTON, D.C. – Meta stands down the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today in the most critical antitrust trial in the history of Mark Zuckerberg’s powerhouse...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Late last week, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered another magnanimous opinion in a lawsuit concerning the rights of citizens subject to enforcement action by federal agencies. In...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | April 18, 2024 WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new federal privacy bill has surfaced in Congress that introduces sweeping changes for how the privacy rights of American citizens...

Late last week, a discussion draft of a new federal privacy bill was uploaded to the cloud server of the US Senate Commerce Committee and made public. The bill, known...

Washington, D.C. – This week, a bipartisan cohort of US Senators unveiled a new version of the Kids Online Safety Act, a bill that aims to impose various restrictions and...

Since when do government agencies applaud business deals that fall apart, resulting in hundreds of layoffs and loss opportunities for consumers who depend on those products? That’s what happened earlier...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | September 26, 2023 The FTC’s latest Amazon antitrust case seeks to end your consumer preferences WASHINGTON, D.C. – This morning, the Federal Trade Commission launched another...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, it was reported that the Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against the tech firm Amazon, claiming that its Prime subscription has “tricked” unwitting...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Extending its crusade against select social media firms, the Federal Trade Commission proposed several scathing amendments to a 2020-era privacy order with Meta on Wednesday, hoping to...