#Ftc
Events indexed under #Ftc — 32 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-08 | Supreme Court Signals Intent to Overturn 90-Year Precedent Protecting Independent Agency Leaders from Presidential Firing, Expanding Executive Power
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · John Roberts · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-18 | Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Case as Judge Rules No Monopoly Despite Instagram/WhatsApp Acquisitions
3 src Judge James Boasberg · Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-11 | FTC Launches Investigation into AI Companion Chatbots' Impact on Children
2 src Federal Trade Commission · Alphabet · Character.AI · Meta · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-04-10 | Fired US Federal Trade Commissioners Sound Alarm on Potential Data Access Misuse
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Rebecca Slaughter · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Replaces Lina Khan with Andrew Ferguson, Signals Antitrust Rollback
3 src Donald Trump · Andrew Ferguson · Lina Khan · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-10 | FTC Blocks Kroger-Albertsons $24.6B Grocery Merger, Citing Labor and Consumer Harm
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Kroger Company · Albertsons Companies · Judge Nelson | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | FTC Sues Big Three PBMs for Artificially Inflating Insulin Prices Through Rebate Schemes
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-09 | FTC Report Reveals PBM Oligopoly: Top 3 Control 80% of Market, Extract $7.3 Billion Through Markups
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-24 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC to Block Non-Compete Ban, Challenging Agency Authority
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Business Roundtable | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-18 | FTC and DOJ Release 2023 Merger Guidelines Rejecting Consumer Welfare Standard
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · Lina Khan · Jonathan Kanter | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-01 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC Over 'Black-Box Environment' Lack of Transparency
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Suzanne Clark | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-26 | FTC Sues Amazon for Illegal Monopoly Maintenance Through Anti-Discounting and Seller Coercion
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Amazon · Andy Jassy · 17 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-01 | FTC Issues Policy Statement on Orange Book Patent Gaming: Pharmaceutical Evergreening as Unfair Competition Under Section 5
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Andrew N. Ferguson · Food and Drug Administration · Amphastar · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-10 | FTC Loses Microsoft-Activision Challenge, $69 Billion Merger Approved Despite Opposition
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Microsoft Corporation · Activision Blizzard · Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-31 | FTC fines Ring $5.8 million for employees' illegal surveillance of customers' private videos
3 src Ring · Amazon · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-31 | FTC Loses Challenge to Block Meta's VR Acquisition, Major Setback for Khan
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Meta Platforms · Judge Edward Davila · Lina Khan | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-13 | Celsius Network Files Bankruptcy After Freezing $4.7 Billion in Customer Deposits, Exposing Crypto Regulatory Void
3 src Celsius Network · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Trade Commission · Three Arrows Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-14 | FTC Blocks JAB Consumer Partners Veterinary Clinic Roll-Up: Private Equity Monopolization Strategy
3 src Federal Trade Commission · JAB Consumer Partners · JAB Holding Company · National Veterinary Associates · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-07 | FTC Launches Bipartisan Investigation into PBM Market Concentration and Drug Pricing
2 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Chuck Grassley · Maria Cantwell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-09 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14036: 72 Competition Initiatives, Most Comprehensive Since FDR
3 src Joe Biden · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · White House Competition Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-15 | Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever
3 src Lina Khan · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-09 | FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization Through Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions, Seeks Breakup
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-08 | AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly
3 src AbbVie · Allergan · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-15 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Completes $74 Billion Celgene Acquisition Despite FTC Concerns
3 src Bristol-Myers Squibb · Celgene · Federal Trade Commission · Amgen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-24 | FTC Fines Facebook Record $5 Billion But Grants Zuckerberg Immunity from Personal Liability
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Federal Trade Commission · Rohit Chopra · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-23 | FTC Approves Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Despite Monopolization Concerns
3 src Amazon.com Inc. · Jeff Bezos · Whole Foods Market Inc. · Federal Trade Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-19 | Facebook Acquires WhatsApp for $19 Billion to Dominate Messaging Market
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · WhatsApp · Jan Koum · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-03 | Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Google Inc. · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-10 | FTC Finalizes 2012 Consent Decree Against Facebook — Privacy Order That Did Not Stop Surveillance-Advertising Substrate
5 src Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Jon Leibowitz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-09 | Google Fined Record $22.5M for Deliberately Overriding Safari Privacy Settings
4 src Google · Federal Trade Commission · Apple · Jon Leibowitz (FTC Chairman) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | Hospital Consolidation Wave (2010-2020): 1,164 Mergers with Only 1% FTC Enforcement Rate
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Hospital corporations | confirmed | |
| 2008-04-13 | Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1B, Creating Advertising Monopoly
4 src Google · DoubleClick · Federal Trade Commission · Pamela Jones Harbour (dissenting FTC Commissioner) · +1 | confirmed |