Auto dealer practices draw regulatory concerns

The Federal Trade Commission has signaled that the advertising and pricing practices of certain auto dealers might warrant further scrutiny.

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Playing it safe with AI and mergers

When a situation is perplexing and the stakes are high, caution makes sense. This means the antitrust agencies are likely to judge mergers in the artificial intelligence space a bit more vigorously than usual and keep these markets a bit less concentrated.

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Privacy Corner: GOP’s Joyce takes lead on sweeping privacy bill

John Joyce, a Pennsylvania Republican, was vice chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee when the GOP took the gavel in January 2025. Soon after, he was chosen to lead a major overhaul of...

Competition and the media explored by American Antitrust Institute panels

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State AGs seek FTC action on food delivery fees

More than a dozen state attorneys general told the Federal Trade Commission they back a new regulation to address unfair and deceptive fees on online food delivery platforms, which the AGs said...

San Francisco DOJ takes on another complex cartel case: shipping containers

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X Corp. asks FTC to terminate 2022 privacy order

X Corp. has asked the Federal Trade Commission to set aside or modify its 2022 settlement order against Elon Musk’s social media company.

FTC Act created weak agency until lawmakers stepped in

The contentious debate over how aggressive the Federal Trade Commission should be is far from surprising. Over the years, critics have pressed the agency to clamp down more on corporate wrongdoing...

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Lande gets top AAI award

Robert Lande, one of the leading scholars of antitrust policy and a key voice for stronger enforcement, has been given the American Antitrust Institute’s Alfred Kahn Award.