A profile of Gail Slater, the head of the DOJ's antitrust unit who has become the leader of the MAGA antitrust movement over Big Tech “censorship” concerns
very much not what some in the business world & antitrust bar have hoped for (or at least publicly predicted) from this admin. Nancy Scola / @nancyscola : I profiled the new head of the DOJ antitrust ...
Q&A with former FTC commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter, who Trump fired, likely illegally, on Meta, fighting for privacy, and bribes in the US
Nilay Patel / The Verge : Bluesky: @jasonpaul and @reckless . X: @nancyscola Bluesky: Jason Paul / @jasonpaul : Gratuities. Nilay Patel / @reckless : Look there are a lot of other tech and biz podcas...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is lobbying Trump for a settlement that would stop Meta from facing an April 14 antitrust trial; he visited the White House on April 2
www.wsj.com/politics/pol... [images] Cooper Lund / @cooperlund.online : Swapping Musk for Zuck to run the government efficiency office when Zuck oversees the most bloated of the tech giants would be ...
The FTC proposes barring Meta from monetizing kids' data, accusing the company of violating a 2020 order with its privacy program and COPPA with Messenger Kids
In an announcement today, the agency said that, on top of … Jamey Kistner : 🔒 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed changes to its 2020 privacy order with Facebook, accusing the company of f...
FTC's Facebook settlement does little to hamper the company's ad business or data collection practices, mostly re-committing Facebook to previous goals
“Mr. Zuckerberg does remain the controlling shareholder, but his power over privacy in particular will be diffused.” Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Facebook's $5 billion agreement with the FTC is offici...
Sources: in a 3-2 vote, FTC commissioners have approved a record $5B settlement with Facebook over the company's privacy violations
or one month's worth of revenue Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News : Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation Howard Lindzon : Why Facebook Needs Libra Mark Wyciślik-Wilson ...