The FTC has deleted more than 300 blog posts published by the agency under former chairman Lina Khan, Report. These include posts that criticize companies such as Amazon and Microsoft Customer Data.
The FTC did not respond to a request for comment.
During Biden’s time, Khan, as the chairman of the FTC, was known as the strong executor of the Antitrust Law, tried to hold large companies accountable for their potential to stifle competition in the U.S. market. In an interview with TechCrunch, she once called large tech leaders “Mob boss. “But in the Trump era, the FTC is unlikely to be alert to large-scale technologies.
The deletion of these blogs may potentially violate laws regarding how government data is processed; at the same time, this behavior is consistent with the Trump administration’s ongoing campaign Delete certain words and phrases From public and private government documents. These terms include “black”, “disability”, “feminism”, “gender”, “Latinx”, “LGBTQ”, “Transgender”, “victim”, and “women”.
