If Monday’s Supreme Court argument is any indication, the days of “independent” agencies acting as a fourth branch of government are numbered. In Trump v. Slaughter, a solid majority of the justices ...

In November 2025, social media users (archived) began posting screenshots (archived) of an email purportedly from PayPal (archived) about money they had apparently received from an "FTC Prime ...

Amazon Prime subscribers who signed up for the Amazon-Federal Trade Commission settlement could have their money in their bank accounts this week. On Sept. 25, Amazon settled a two-year civil suit ...

"The Court ultimately concludes that the agency has not carried its burden: Meta holds no monopoly in the relevant market," U.S. District Chief Judge James Boasberg wrote in a decision granting ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of Meta as it fought a Federal Trade Commission antitrust challenge of its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. In a lengthy ruling, U.S. District Judge ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it will not appeal ...

Staff at the US Federal Trade Commission said it appears Novo Nordisk A/S’ proposed bid for Metsera Inc. “may violate the procedural provisions” of the law that requires a premerger review. In a ...

As Novo Nordisk and Pfizer vie for control of Metsera, a new round of takeout proposals has resulted in the obesity biotech declaring Novo's offer "superior"—even though it has already inked an ...

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. Ed Silverman, a senior ...

Oct 23 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday declined for now to reinstate a U.S. Federal Trade Commission subpoena that sought information from nonprofit Media Matters as the agency probes ...

The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot. On March 13, ...