The FTC just published results of a sweeping study of social media sites that has been going on for four years. The organization said that many social media sites and streaming services engage in ...

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, the FTC said. Data privacy, particularly for kids and ...

The FTC in 2020 requested personal data from nine major streaming and social services, such as Amazon, ByteDance and YouTube. Findings revealed a concerning trend of data monitoring by these ...

A new FTC report on how social media and streaming sites collect and monetize their hoards of user data doesn't really feature a lot of surprises for anyone who's followed the space. The report ...

Top social media and video streaming companies are facing new scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which released a report Thursday morning accusing the platforms of vastly violating ...

The merger condition is a new strategy in the Republican-controlled FTC's fight against alleged advertising boycotts, which ...

FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence; rule takes effect in October All five FTC commissioners voted to adopt the final rule, which will go into effect 60 days after it is ...

The FTC Has No Business Trying to Make Sure Social Media Are 'Fair': Chairman Andrew Ferguson's Assault on 'Big Tech Censorship' Aims to Override Constitutionally Protected Decisions ...

In November 2023, Media Matters reported that ads were appearing next to pro-Nazi posts on X. Musk, the lawsuit said, “promised a ‘thermonuclear’ lawsuit against Media Matters—and his supporters in ...

Omnicom's $13.5 billion acquisition of rival Interpublic can move forward on the condition the new company does not enter ...

Many Americans, including me, have had frustrating experiences with content moderation on social media platforms. Andrew Ferguson, the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Trade Commission ...