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June 09, 2026
Nov. 5 — The American Antitrust Institute is holding its 20th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. For more information, go to: https://www.antitrustinstitute.org.
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June 09, 2026
John Joyce, a Pennsylvania Republican, was vice chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee when the GOP took the gavel in January 2025. Soon after, he was chosen to lead a major overhaul of privacy legislation.
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June 09, 2026
The president of the American Antitrust Institute began the organization’s 27th annual policy conference with the words of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter: “A free press is indispensable to the workings of our democratic society.”
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June 09, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has signaled that the advertising and pricing practices of certain auto dealers might warrant further scrutiny.
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June 09, 2026
More than a dozen state attorneys general told the Federal Trade Commission they back a new regulation to address unfair and deceptive fees on online food delivery platforms, which the AGs said have experienced “explosive growth.”
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June 09, 2026
When a federal court last month unsealed a superseding indictment in one of the Department of Justice’s most significant criminal antitrust cases in decades, attention focused on Washington, DC, where the DOJ made the announcement. But the investigation — and now the prosecution — is being led nearly 3,000 miles away in San Francisco.
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June 09, 2026
X Corp. has asked the Federal Trade Commission to set aside or modify its 2022 settlement order against Elon Musk’s social media company.
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June 09, 2026
Scott G. Srodes, a former employee of a shelving and storage distributor, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to rig bids and defraud the Department of Defense.
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June 09, 2026
The contentious debate over how aggressive the Federal Trade Commission should be is far from surprising. Over the years, critics have pressed the agency to clamp down more on corporate wrongdoing — and often Congress has responded with major revisions to the FTC Act.
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June 09, 2026
When a situation is perplexing and the stakes are high, caution makes sense. This means the antitrust agencies are likely to judge mergers in the artificial intelligence space a bit more vigorously than usual and keep these markets a bit less concentrated.
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June 09, 2026
While the White House stressed a “Full-Scale War on Fraud,” citing primarily domestic wins last month, two bipartisan lawmakers issued a report tying more than $10 billion in losses to scam networks in Southeast Asia.
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June 09, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has told Ascension Health Alliance to divest several surgery center facilities to complete its proposed $3.9 billion acquisition of AmSurg LLC.
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June 09, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to overturn a major trial loss in antitrust litigation seeking a breakup of Meta Platforms is unlikely to fix a broader issue with the agency’s ability to police past harms to competition in the wake of a 2021 Supreme Court decision limiting its authority.
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June 09, 2026
Robert Lande, one of the leading scholars of antitrust policy and a key voice for stronger enforcement, has been given the American Antitrust Institute’s Alfred Kahn Award.
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May 26, 2026
Trust and safety are top of mind for businesses choosing a software provider. Shaundra Watson, the senior director of policy for the Business Software Alliance, brings a regulator’s perspective when advocating for the tech trade association.
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May 26, 2026
June 4 — The American Antitrust Institute is hosting its 27th annual policy conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. For more details, go to: https://www.antitrustinstitute.org.
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May 26, 2026
Two members of the Federal Trade Commission outlined a more open approach to mergers at a workshop Wednesday, with one questioning whether some companies are meeting their legal obligations.
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May 26, 2026
Media Matters for America has settled with the Federal Trade Commission after the journalism nonprofit sued the agency for allegedly violating its First Amendment rights.
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May 26, 2026
In a national survey by the University of Pennsylvania, nearly two-thirds of Americans said the government has done “too little” to regulate artificial intelligence, with the response holding a majority among Democrats and Republicans.
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May 26, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has started enforcing the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which requires online platforms to remove intimate photos and videos of people that were shared without their consent.
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May 26, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has carried out some of the world’s most consequential privacy enforcement actions despite having a data privacy budget a fraction the size of some of its counterparts in Europe and Asia.
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May 26, 2026
A riveting new book has the inside scoop on the culture that created the tech behemoths attempting to run circles around Washington’s regulators.
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May 26, 2026
Former Federal Trade Commissioner Rohit Chopra is scheduled to start a new government position in California in the coming weeks.
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May 26, 2026
One of the pleasures of stepping back from a full-time day job, as I did when I retired from the Federal Trade Commission a few years ago, is having more time to enjoy extended travel.
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May 26, 2026
Groups representing small businesses are beefing up their efforts to pressure enforcers to bring more antitrust enforcement actions.