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FTC Settles With Media Matters After Watchdog Group Claimed Agency Retaliation For Article On Elon Musk’s X
#News #Politics #AndrewFerguson #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #ElonMusk #FTC #MediaMatters #NewsGuard

https://deadline.com/2026/05/media-matters-ftc-settlement-elon-musk-1236881263/

FTC Settles With Media Matters After Watchdog Group Claimed Agency Retaliation For Article On Elon Musk’s X

Media Matters claimed that it was being punished for its reporting on Elon Musk's X

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Techdirt [Unofficial]Apr 16

Oh Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/oh-look-the-maga-ftc-built-the-censorship-industrial-complex-it-was-screaming-about/

Oh Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About

We’ve been covering the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against NewsGuard for a while now. It started with the House Oversight Committee’s absurd investigation of the c…

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Techdirt [Unofficial]Feb 20

Newsmax Didn’t Like Its NewsGuard Rating, So The FTC Attacked NewsGuard, And Now NewsGuard Is Suing

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/20/newsmax-didnt-like-its-newsguard-rating-so-the-ftc-attacked-newsguard-and-now-newsguard-is-suing/

Newsmax Didn’t Like Its NewsGuard Rating, So The FTC Attacked NewsGuard, And Now NewsGuard Is Suing

We’ve written a few times now about how the GOP’s “free speech warriors” have been waging an absolutely absurd campaign against NewsGuard, a company whose entire business mo…

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Techdirt [Unofficial]Feb 17

Trump FTC Threatens Apple With A Fake Investigation Into Its Nonexistent ‘Liberal News Bias’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/trump-ftc-threatens-apple-with-a-fake-investigation-into-its-nonexistent-liberal-news-bias/

Trump FTC Threatens Apple With A Fake Investigation Into Its Nonexistent ‘Liberal News Bias’

Here we go again.The Trump FTC has threatened Apple and CEO Tim Cook with a fake investigation claiming that Apple News doesn’t do a good enough job coddling right wing, Trump-friendly ideolo…

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PrivacyDigest Feb 14

F.T.C. Chair Warns #Apple Against #Bias in #AppleNews

#AndrewFerguson of the F.T.C. said in a letter to Apple that it might be violating consumer protection law by stifling #conservative speech in its news aggregation service.
#ftc

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/ftc-chair-bias-apple-news.html

F.T.C. Chair Warns Apple Against Bias in Apple News

Andrew Ferguson of the F.T.C. said in a letter to Apple that it might be violating consumer protection law by stifling conservative speech in its news aggregation service.

The New York Times

PrivacyDigest Feb 13

#Trump #FTC wants #AppleNews to promote more #FoxNews and #Breitbart stories

Federal Trade Commission Chairman #AndrewFerguson has accused #Apple of violating US law by suppressing conservative-leaning news outlets on Apple News.

Ferguson pointed to research by a pro-Trump group that accused Apple News of suppressing articles by Fox News, the #NewYorkPost , #DailyMail , Breitbart, and The #GatewayPundit.
#maga #disinformation #misinformation

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/trump-ftc-denies-being-speech-police-but-says-apple-news-is-too-liberal/