A look at the many lawsuits against RealPage, the rent-fixing software company accused of artificially inflating the real estate rental prices across the US
RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles. Mastodon: @carnage4life@m...
A profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, who on a trip to Silicon Valley in November aimed to convince a skeptical tech sector that the government was there to help
FTC Chair Lina Khan's vast ambitions to cut back on corporate power could be a huge part of Biden's legacy — if they come to fruition. X: @chase_sutton99 , @caffar3cristina , @joshua_sisco , @matthews...
Internal FTC survey: overall satisfaction among staff has dropped from 89% in 2020 to 60% in 2021; in an email, Lina Khan pledges to fix sinking staff morale
Under both Republican and Democratic administrations, the Federal Trade Commission has consistently ranked in the top five … Tweets: @cswilsonftc , @cswilsonftc , @heynottheface , @cswilsonftc , @opin...
Documents and sources: the Global Antitrust Institute, which trains regulators to take a hands-off approach to antitrust, is funded by Google, Amazon, Qualcomm
Google, Amazon and Qualcomm finance a George Mason University institute teaching a hands-off approach to antitrust regulators and judges. Tweets: @rondeibert , @conordougherty , @econ_marshall , @eric...
Docs shared by tech giants in response to questions from Congress show few customers, employees, or contractors bother to challenge the firms in arbitration
it's a rigged system that allows them to systematically escape accountability for cheating workers and consumers. Google contractors, for example, have initiated just *three* arbitration claims in the...
To outsmart Amazon's product-ranking system, some sellers are turning to click farms, reviewers-for-hire, and even paying off Amazon workers for information
The digital giant battles click farms, reviewers-for-hire and other scams as merchants try to outsmart its product-ranking system. Tweets: @riskreversal , @wsj , @ddayen , and @triketora Tweets: Dan N...