Khan: Unless Twitter is going to suddenly be competing in the rocket ship or electric vehicle markets, no reasonable person would see this purchase as having antitrust concerns. The FTC didn’t care if Twitter itself was cooking the books in its reporting of how many actual, real live users they have, but instead chose to evaluate whether it posed antitrust concerns.Įarth to Ms.

So, predictably, the Khan FTC jumped into the fray when Elon Musk announced his intent to takeover Twitter. Khan has gone further than just changing the rules, she used the votes of a commissioner who had already left the FTC - in what many labeled zombie voting. Those two commissioners have vocally criticized the Khan-led agency for “overstepping decades of precedent and the agency’s legal authority” as she pushed through aggressive changes by narrow partisan 3-2 votes. She overturned the agency’s long-standing merger guidelines over the vocal objections of the two Republican-appointed commissioners and many experts. Khan has chosen a path of weaponizing an agency with the power to destroy a corporation under the guise of consumer protection. Rather than working within the constructs of bipartisan tradition, which assures both continuity of policy and direction, Ms.

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