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Trump brings ‘war on fraud’ into focus with task force of benefits-paying agencies

President Donald Trump is directing nearly a dozen federal agencies that provide public-facing benefits and services to crack…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #andrewferguson #DonaldTrump #Fraud #JDVance #StephenMiller #taskforce #UnitedStates #Us #USA #WhiteHouse #WillScharf
https://www.newsbeep.com/438509/

Techdirt 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 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/