The FTC's new 80-page complaint alleges that Facebook illegally crushed its rivals through tactics such as buying up competitors and restricting developers from accessing the social network's data.

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Facebook's request to dismiss a revised antitrust complaint filed by the US Federal Trade Commission. The amended lawsuit, which the FTC filed in August ...

Facebook’s $5 billion settlement with the FTC is a done deal, but what will it mean for users? Not much will change for consumers, experts say.

The FTC started looking into Facebook last March, after news reports that Facebook had allowed Cambridge Analytica, a social media data firm that worked on President Trump's 2016 campaign, to ...

The special case of patient groups and privacy on Facebook had been brought to the FTC’s attention in December 2018, when one of us (F.T.), health privacy lawyer David Harlow, and patient ...

The FTC originally filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook in December 2020, teaming up with 46 states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Guam to accuse Facebook of maintaining an ...

Facebook has petitioned FTC chair Lina Khan to recuse herself from deciding whether to continue an agency antitrust case against the company, citing previous criticism.

Facebook told the Times that the 2011 FTC agreement didn’t require it to have explicit consent for sharing user data with these partners’ platforms because Facebook considered them to be ...

FTC officials declined to comment on Facebook’s motion, which came two weeks after Amazon requested that Khan be excused from taking part in investigations of that company.

The FTC is looking to see whether Facebook violated terms of a 2011 consent order in which the Menlo Park company agreed to get users’ permission for certain changes to privacy settings.