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FTC

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795 articles decelerating

FTC has appeared in 795 articles since 2014-12. Coverage peaked in 2023Q3 with 42 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Facebook, Amazon, Google, The Federal Trade Commission.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-06-05
Ars Technica 5 related

Elon Musk petitioned the FTC in May to end its 2022 order restricting Twitter's data use, claiming Twitter no longer exists as X merged with xAI and then SpaceX

Critics hope to keep Elon Musk from escaping a strict data-privacy order imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shortly before he took over Twitter.

2026-05-25
The Verge 7 related

The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting

More specifically, it was fined for allegedly lying by claiming that it could. … An exceptionally weird controversy has come …

2026-05-13
Reuters 3 related

The US FTC says Shutterstock will pay $35M to settle charges that Shutterstock misled consumers about its subscription plans and made it too difficult to cancel

Shutterstock (SSTK.N) will pay $35 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that the online provider of stock photography …

2026-05-05
BleepingComputer 5 related

The FTC will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary CDS from selling Americans' location data as part of a settlement over charges brought in 2022

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary Collective Data Solutions (CDS) from selling location …

2026-04-16
New York Times 17 related

WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers

WPP, Dentsu and Publicis settled claims they colluded on policies to combat misinformation, denying ad revenue to publishers on the right.

2026-04-15
New York Times 11 related

WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers

WPP, Dentsu and Publicis settled claims they colluded on policies to combat misinformation, denying ad revenue to publishers on the right.

2026-03-31
Reuters 12 related

Match Group agrees to settle an FTC lawsuit claiming it illegally shared user data from the OkCupid app with facial recognition tech company Clarifai in 2014

2026-03-30
Reuters 9 related

Match Group agrees to settle an FTC lawsuit claiming it illegally shared user data from the OkCupid app with facial recognition tech company Clarifai in 2014

Match Group (MTCH.O) settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit accusing it of giving an outside company access to personal data …

2026-03-21
Reuters

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals throws out a 2024 FTC order barring Intuit from advertising TurboTax products as “free” when many taxpayers are ineligible

2026-02-25
Nikkei Asia 4 related

Sources: Japan's FTC raids Microsoft's Japan offices as part of a probe into whether Azure customers were improperly hindered from using other cloud services

TOKYO — Japan's antitrust authority raided the offices of Microsoft Japan on Wednesday as part of an investigation into whether …

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FTC has appeared in 759 Techmeme articles since December 2014, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. The biggest stories include US district court dismisses FTC's antitrust complaint against Facebook, saying its... and FTC, in coalition with 46 state AGs, plus Guam and DC, sues Facebook, alleging Instagram.... Frequently covered alongside Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta. Coverage has shifted toward consumer, enterprise themes and away from regulation, competition.

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2024Q2enterprise +10pts; consumer +10pts; funding -10pts
2024Q3safety +6pts; developer +7pts; consumer -16pts
2024Q4safety -7pts; developer -7pts; consumer +7pts

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