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 ...

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking the public’s input on whether Big Tech firms like Google and Facebook parent Meta ...

The order will require all independent federal agencies and executive branches to now submit draft regulations so they can be ...

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 ...

Other agencies that would be affected by new order include Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission ...

The FTC announcement said that "censorship by technology platforms is not just un-American, it is potentially illegal." Tech ...

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.