Act against data-driven bias, advocacy groups tell FTC
A coalition of advocacy groups and lawmakers urged the Federal Trade Commission to hold companies accountable as online harms against people of color and women proliferate.
What’s up with that West Virginia v. EPA opinion?
What was going on in the Supreme Court’s opinion in West Virginia v. EPA? Everyone has a sense the new “major questions doctrine” will create problems for the antitrust agencies. But what kinds of problems exactly?
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Back to the future: Is the FTC reliving its past?
When Federal Trade Commission member Christine Wilson invoked the phrase “national nanny” to describe the dangers of an overreaching agency, she was using words that have haunted the commission for...
Government probe of online platforms may be more bark than bite
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are making headlines for investigating major online platforms, but a follow-through — pursuing actual challenges against the behemoth...
White House draft order on policing Internet content gets tepid reaction
Ensuring fairness or censuring speech. Those are key issues in a debate over the Trump administration’s discussions of empowering agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission and the...
Book delves into trustbusting era, offers modern-day lessons
It didn’t start with the Sherman Act. While much of the political and legal discussion of trustbusting uses the 1890 law as a starting point, Charles Postel contends more attention should be paid...
TINA.org leads charge against deceptive Instagram ads
The photo on the “healthy eats & treats” Instagram account shows a carefully arranged breakfast plate, the pancakes just-so drizzled. Click “like,” follow the account and follow pancake...
Final chapter closes in Commerce Planet-FTC saga
After 10 years of legal action, the Federal Trade Commission is wrapping up legal action against a California Internet firm called Commerce Planet and is refunding $748,070 to consumers.