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Incoming FTC Chair: I will stop investigations that I falsely claim are politically motivated, and launch my own politically motivated investigations
On Tuesday, Trump announced Andrew Ferguson as the next chair of the Federal Trade Commission, elevating him from his current commissioner role. Ferguson’s plans for the agency, laid out in a…
Pursue structural and behavioral legal remedies under the antitrust laws and the FTC Act to make sure large platforms treat all Americans fairly and to prevent them from using their market power to box out new entrants and stymie innovation. Investigate the doctors, therapists, hospitals, and others who deceptively pushed gender confusion, puberty blockers, hormone replacement, and sex-change surgeries on children and adults while failing to disclose strong evidence that such interventions are not helpful and carry enormous risks. The same Republicans who viewed a public statement from Obama as an egregious violation of the FCC’s independence will now happily cheer Ferguson on as he explicitly vows to turn the FTC into an arm of the Trump White House.
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