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NewsGuard sues US FTC over alleged censorship

( February 6, 2026, 19:46 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: NewsGuard filed suit in federal district court seeking to enjoin the Federal Trade Commission and its chairman, Andrew Ferguson, from continuing an investigation of NewsGuard. “While the FTC has jurisdiction over unfair competition in commerce and agreements that unreasonably restrain trade, here it is brazenly using its power not for any issue concerning trade or commerce, but rather to censor speech. And it has done so simply out of disagreement with NewsGuard’s First Amendment-protected journalistic judgments about the reliability of news sources,” the complaint said.Statement follows in full. Also see attached file. ...

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