A new executive order from President Trump makes the appointed heads of independent agencies like the FCC and the FTC a little more like figureheads. According to Trump, presidents control the actions ...

The order is the latest example of Trump’s embrace of a broad and controversial theory of executive power. The White House is confident the Supreme Court will bless his approach.

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking the public’s input on whether Big Tech firms like Google and Facebook parent Meta censor their users, the agency announced on Thursday.

The Trump administration has taken another step to centralize the executive branch with a new order that “reins in independent agencies.” | The White House's latest executive order would give the ...

Shadowbanning, demonetizing may violate consumer protection, competition laws under FTC purview, new agency chair warns. Section 230 "advisory opinion" could send Big Tech investors fleeing, columnist ...

“Tech firms should not be bullying their users,” said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, recently chosen by President Trump to ...

Some news organizations are calling it a "power grab" by the White House. Talk of court challenges has already emerged.

United States president Donald Trump signed an executive order that will give presidential control over independent agencies.

In practice, ensuring "fair" treatment of users means overriding editorial decisions that the FTC deems opaque, unreasonable, ...

FCC chair Brendan Carr on Thursday opened a probe into diversity practices at Verizon and raised the company's ongoing effort to purchase Frontier.