US FTC will consider X bid to terminate 2022 privacy settlement
By Mike Swift ( June 3, 2026, 23:46 GMT | Insight) -- The US Federal Trade Commission said it will accept public comments until July 2 on a petition by X to terminate a 20-year privacy consent order. X said in the petition filed with the FTC last month and made public Wednesday that FTC oversight is no longer necessary because it has “built a world-class privacy and data-protection program,” because eliminating the order “safeguards First Amendment values” for a social media app that is the “most prominent platform for open public discourse,” and because FTC privacy oversight is counter to the deregulatory thrust of President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan.X wants the US Federal Trade Commission to rescind a $150 million privacy settlement from 2022 that put the company then known as Twitter under a 20-year oversight order, saying the monitoring is unnecessary and could impede American leadership in artificial intelligence....
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