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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Corteva’s claims of patent infringement against rival Inari concerning genetically modified corn seeds could harm competition, the Department of Justice said in a Delaware court filing.
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May 26, 2026
A jury’s lightning-quick dismissal of Elon Musk’s breach-of-charitable-trust claims against OpenAI, Microsoft and two OpenAI executives already has Musk’s legal team preparing an appeal and getting ready for a potential second trial court phase on Musk’s antitrust claims.
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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.
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May 12, 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 12, 2026
In the summer of 2022, the Federal Trade Commission set out to see how easy it was to buy Americans’ geolocation data.
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May 12, 2026
Unlike other former Federal Trade Commission chairs, Lina Khan has kept a high profile, and she just launched a think tank to help further her goals.
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May 12, 2026
Restaurateurs across the US — from California to the Midwest to New York — are complaining after Sysco, the nation’s largest food distributor, announced its intent to acquire Jetro Restaurant Depot, a cash-and-carry wholesaler.
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May 12, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission’s proposed remedy in the 365 Retail Markets matter underscores the agency’s increasing focus on serial acquisitions and its willingness to assess a company’s broader course of conduct, not just the competitive effects of a single deal, when reviewing mergers.
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May 12, 2026
Julia Tarver Wood, a key member of the Department of Justice’s trial team in the Google ad tech case, has returned to private practice as a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
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May 12, 2026
Federal Trade Commission figures show more than $2 billion in reported losses originated from scams started on social media sites — nearly twice as much as any other contact method.
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May 12, 2026
Federal and state antitrust law enforcers have ramped up their policing in recent years of alleged threats to either quantity, quality or variety of competition within the rapidly shrinking and consolidating journalism sector.
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May 12, 2026
The world of kid influencers is fascinating and scary, as well as a bit of a mystery for those who don’t follow or engage with them. The industry, raking in billions, also raises issues of privacy, child exploitation and free speech.
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May 12, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice urged the Tennessee Supreme Court against relying exclusively on the American Bar Association’s accreditation of state law schools.
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May 12, 2026
People have been looking for signs of Republican populism in the Trump era and not finding them. But at least some political populism has actually been hiding in plain sight, surfacing in the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection efforts rather than its antitrust agenda.
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May 12, 2026
Senator Cory Booker introduced a measure to unwind certain mergers agreed to during the second Trump administration. The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee cited “political influence” on deals.