Khan's voluntary appearance comes after she was subpoenaed in April for documents related to the FTC's inquiries into Twitter owner Elon Musk’s actions since buying the platform.
in April for agency documents related to the FTC’s ongoing probe into Musk and whether he violated a May 2022 privacy settlement, where Twitter paid $150 million for misusing user’s data, and stemmed from an earlier 2011 settlement.summarizing over a dozen letters it obtained that were sent to Musk in the three months after he bought Twitter in October 2022.
The subcommittee’s report alleged that under Khan’s leadership, the FTC has been attempting to “harass” Twitter and “pry into the company’s decisions on matters outside of the FTC’s mandate,” suggesting the FTC’s ongoing enforcement of the settlement is “partisan.” The FTC has refuted those claims. “FTC investigations are straightforward and nonpolitical,” Farrar said in ain response to the report. “The consent order the FTC has with Twitter isn’t about Musk’s acquisition of the company or their content moderation policies. This isn’t about free speech, it’s about the FTC doing its job to protect Americans’ privacy.
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