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Social media emerges as costliest source of scams

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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Finding GOP populism in consumer protection cases

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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Suing data broker Kochava helped FTC set legal precedent

In the summer of 2022, the Federal Trade Commission set out to see how easy it was to buy Americans’ geolocation data. 

FTC settlement highlights broad scrutiny of 365 Retail serial acquisitions

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...

Khan launches research center at Columbia

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.

Restaurateurs say Sysco-Jetro deal threatens stability of food system

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...

News sector emerges as growing US antitrust concern

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...

Stop ABA’s monopoly on accreditation, agencies tell Tennessee

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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Wood exits DOJ, returns to private practice

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.