Cat Zakrzewski

The FTC currently has a staff of about 40 people monitoring compliance with its many hundreds of consent orders across the economy. Current and former officials say it’s not enough.

The judges ruled that while the First Amendment guarantees every person’s right to free speech, it doesn’t guarantee corporations the right to “muzzle speech.”

As the Jan. 6 committee studies the role social media played in the insurrection, threats to kill or injure key witnesses fester on 4chan and the .win forums.

On Friday, about 250 groups wrote a letter to top Senate leaders calling for a vote on Sohn’s nomination before Congress adjourns at the end of the year.

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, left his home after criticism from Musk unleashed a torrent of online harassment.

The $520 million settlement will result in significant changes to “Fortnite,” the cartoonlike shooter game played by more than 400 million users worldwide.

It only a took a few hours for misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to sweep social media after Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field.

The Justice Department filed its second lawsuit against search giant Google, this time over the company’s dominance in online advertising.

The FTC’s Twitter probe has earned the ire of House Republicans, who argue the agency is trying to thwart Musk’s absolutist vision of free speech on Twitter.

A merger between Switzerland’s two largest banks could ease growing concerns that turmoil at Credit Suisse could ripple through the global economy.