Sources detail factors that weakened Elon Musk's alliance with President Trump, including his frustrations with Trump's tariffs and his disillusionment with DC
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u... Philip Gourevitch / @pgourevitch : Exit (or pretend to) pursued by a bear market. — www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u... A.R. Moxon / @juliusgoat : Feel like the fact that...
A profile of Gail Slater, the head of the DOJ's antitrust unit who has become the leader of the MAGA antitrust movement over Big Tech “censorship” concerns
very much not what some in the business world & antitrust bar have hoped for (or at least publicly predicted) from this admin. Nancy Scola / @nancyscola : I profiled the new head of the DOJ antitrust ...
Q&A with former FTC commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter, who Trump fired, likely illegally, on Meta, fighting for privacy, and bribes in the US
Nilay Patel / The Verge : Bluesky: @jasonpaul and @reckless . X: @nancyscola Bluesky: Jason Paul / @jasonpaul : Gratuities. Nilay Patel / @reckless : Look there are a lot of other tech and biz podcas...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is lobbying Trump for a settlement that would stop Meta from facing an April 14 antitrust trial; he visited the White House on April 2
www.wsj.com/politics/pol... [images] Cooper Lund / @cooperlund.online : Swapping Musk for Zuck to run the government efficiency office when Zuck oversees the most bloated of the tech giants would be ...
A profile of, and interview with, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed, who is in charge of developing the Biden administration's AI strategy
including companies' accumulation of data — as connecting back to the competition policy/antitrust work Biden's also pushed... Nancy Scola / @nancyscola : Neither came away especially impressed. They ...
The FTC proposes barring Meta from monetizing kids' data, accusing the company of violating a 2020 order with its privacy program and COPPA with Messenger Kids
In an announcement today, the agency said that, on top of … Jamey Kistner : 🔒 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed changes to its 2020 privacy order with Facebook, accusing the company of f...
Interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan on leading the agency, its regulatory failures and avoiding future missteps, Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and more
Lina Khan was an associate professor at Columbia Law, working remotely from Texas, when she found out that President Joe Biden wanted her on the Federal Trade Commission. Tweets: @kvnweb , @nancyscola...
FTC's Khan appoints Erie Meyer as chief technologist, Holly Vedova as acting head of Bureau of Competition, Sam Levine as head of Bureau of Consumer Protection
Diane Bartz / Reuters : Tweets: @ashk4n , @katyetc , @carlmalamud , @nancyscola , and @joshua_sisco Tweets: Ashkan Soltani / @ashk4n : Oh wow Erie Meyer (@chopraftc's incredible staff technologist/ad...
Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend Trump's accounts to the Oversight Board and says the accounts will remain suspended in the meantime
but I love what they are doing with their Oversight Board (even if it's a CYA move & 10 years too late). https://twitter.com/... Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie : Just in time for the 2016, I mean 2...
Recent congressional hearings of tech executives have showcased posturing and battering by legislators elected to be referees, rather than real policy-making
and controversial — approach to how people tweet. https://www.politico.com/... Nancy Scola / @nancyscola : Inside Facebook headquarters, some aren't impressed by Twitter's recent crackdown on high-pro...