X petition could drive changes to 20-year US FTC consent orders
By Mike Swift ( June 10, 2026, 22:41 GMT | Comment) -- Claiming that 15 years of "onerous regulatory oversight is enough," X has asked the US Federal Trade Commission to terminate by the end of this year the 20-year privacy consent order it agreed to in 2022, before the social media platform then-known as Twitter was bought by Elon Musk. If X is successful, it would likely trigger other big tech companies to seek similar forgiveness of their privacy orders, and spur calls for the FTC to shorten the 20-year terms of its consumer protection and antitrust administrative orders in a more rapidly changing digital economy.In asking the US Federal Trade Commission to terminate its 2022 privacy consent order, X is likely to trigger a wider debate about changes to a system that been a bedrock FTC enforcement tool for more than three decades: The 20-year administrative consent order....
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