FTC

Justice Department to review Cigna-Express Scripts merger

Robert King · April 18, 2018 10:34 pm

"Ninety percent of the team identified as liberal, including the copy editors, who essentially had the final approval on topics," the unnamed former Facebook news curator said. (AP Photo)

Facebook panic returns focus to Internet providers selling your browsing data

Steven Nelson · April 17, 2018 4:00 am

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, above, is working to regain the trust of Facebook users as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigates reports about the company's handling of consumer data.

FTC confirms probe of Facebook as Mark Zuckerberg fights to regain trust

James Langford · March 26, 2018 3:45 pm

Facebook is responding to criticism that its platform was misused during the 2016 presidential campaign with new rules that force buyers of "hot button" ads to verify their identities beforehand.

Facebook stock takes a $50 billion hit from Cambridge Analytica probe

James Langford · March 20, 2018 12:48 pm

On average, premiums have doubled for Americans who can, or once could, afford to buy health insurance on their own. (iStock)

Healthcare price-fixing and overregulation are a big brake on prosperity and economic growth

Dan Jones · February 23, 2018 5:01 am

"Equifax and other credit reporting agencies have taken advantage of consumers for years, collecting their data without permission and turning a huge profit while failing to adequately protect that data," Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in the report. "These practices won't change without federal legislation." (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Congressional backlash at Equifax data breach spares its business model

James Langford · February 13, 2018 5:01 am

The CFPB has also put on hold plans to conduct on-site tests to examine how Equifax protects its data, and has rejected requests from regulators at other agencies to help. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

CFPB slows work on Equifax probe: Report

Melissa Quinn · February 5, 2018 5:38 pm

Sens. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said in a letter to FTC Acting Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen that Devumi, the company that sells social media assets, engages in fraudulent practices that harm consumers. (iStock by Getty Images)

Senators urge the FTC to investigate company selling fake social media followers

Mandy Mayfield · February 1, 2018 5:55 pm

Bill Ackman, CEO and founder of Pershing Square Capital, once bragged to the Street that he had spent $50 million "to research and publicize the fund's negative views on Herbalife." (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Bill Ackman: A case study in the dark side of lobbying

Beau Rothschild · January 14, 2018 5:01 am

The Federal Communications Commission voted to end net neutrality on Thursday. Net neutrality has been in place only since June 2015, when President Obama's FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, declared that the Internet would be treated as a utility. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Net neutrality ends — so click your mouse, don’t push the panic button

Washington Examiner · December 18, 2017 5:01 am

For most of the Internet's existence, the principles of net neutrality have been adhered to without the Title II regulatory regime. This week hasn't changed that. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Net neutrality isn’t dead. Here’s what the FCC really did

Kevin Glass · December 15, 2017 3:34 pm

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai takes his seat for the FCC vote on net neutrality. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Don’t freak out over net neutrality deregulation

Tom Rogan · December 14, 2017 7:50 pm