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Antitrust
FTC’s Politically Motivated Pursuit of Meta-Within Acquisition Gets Stranger
Not even Netflix’s Stranger Things has managed to construe odder narrative developments than the ones unfolding from the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) pursuit of a meritless lawsuit against Meta. This week, a report came out that Meta found out about FTC’s lawsuit against them from Twitter. The lack of warning before filing…
Antitrust
Cornyn Says Antitrust Bill Will Never Reach Senate Floor
In an interview, Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) said that the “American Innovation and Choice Online Act” will never make it to the Senate floor. Despite Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s strident protestations to the contrary, it is becoming increasingly clear that the bill just does not have nearly enough support to get across the…
Antitrust
FTC Chair Khan Undermines Agency Staff Again with Reliance on Unpaid Experts
Lina Khan’s tenure as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been a string of disasters. Every time a new report comes out about Khan’s blatant disregard for agency procedures, it becomes even more difficult to believe that Khan’s FTC could be any worse. Yet, an FTC Inspector General…
Antitrust
China-Backed TikTok Destroys DOJ Narrative by Emerging as Strong Competitor to Google
In an forthcoming antitrust suit against Google, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is attempting to depict the company as having such an overbearing market share in the search engine industry that they are preventing competitors from entering the market. As both parties are accumulating evidence, the evolving rise of China-backed…
Antitrust
Klobuchar Admits That There Will Be No Vote on Her Pet Project This Summer
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and co-sponsors of her pet project, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, have spent the past summer wishcasting support for the bill. At the same time, they held out hope that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) would follow through on his alleged promise to put the…
Antitrust
FTC Chair Khan Ignores Experts in Pursuit of Politically Motivated Suit Against Meta
Since President Biden appointed radical academic Lina Khan as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, she has embarked on an ambitious, aggressive agenda to weaponize antitrust law against big businesses solely for the sin of being successful. In pursuit of this agenda, Khan has torn away at the independence and…
Antitrust
FTC Launches Politically Motivated Lawsuit Against Meta
Since becoming Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Lina Khan has used her agency powers to launch attacks on various big businesses solely for the crime of being too successful. The latest effort in pursuit of this bold, egregious agenda comes in the form of a meritless lawsuit launched against Meta’s acquisition…
Antitrust
New Poll Shows American Public Opposes New Antitrust Regulation
The claims of Senator Klobuchar [D-Minn.] and other sponsors of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) have consistently claimed that the American people want Congress to put new sweeping regulations on Big Tech companies. However, a recent poll conducted by AXIS Research and published by the U.S. Chamber of…