The Chair of the FTC is expressing growing concerns about pending antitrust lawsuits against tech giants as days for Donald Trump’s entry into the White House near.
Lina Khan shared how she hoped Amazon and Meta would be justly dealt with in regards to antitrust lawsuits and they would not be pardoned after Trump’s entry as head of state. The news comes as speculations grow related to the new Trump administration offering a softer side to both Amazon and Facebook’s legal matters.
While she added that there is no certain way to predict the future, she does hope that others appointed in her role will carry on with their duties justly as she and her team tried their best to do. This also stems from new reports talking about Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg favoring Trump with donations. Some go as high as one million dollars.
This was for Trump’s inauguration fund which again made headlines, not to mention both CEOs paying Trump a separate personal visit at his residence in Florida’s Mar-a-Lago. So when Khan was asked to comment on these moves, she didn’t hesitate one bit.
She spoke about the FTC serving a very successful tenure under her leadership including lawsuits related to Amazon and Facebook. So it’s obvious that with a new person in charge, both tech giants will try to work their charm on rolling out ‘sweetheart deals’ to try and get away with a lot.
Khan hopes that her predictions are wrong but again, only time can tell what happens in the end. For now, she concluded that Facebook will go on trial in the spring of this year while Amazon’s trial begins fall of next year.
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Lina Khan shared how she hoped Amazon and Meta would be justly dealt with in regards to antitrust lawsuits and they would not be pardoned after Trump’s entry as head of state. The news comes as speculations grow related to the new Trump administration offering a softer side to both Amazon and Facebook’s legal matters.
While she added that there is no certain way to predict the future, she does hope that others appointed in her role will carry on with their duties justly as she and her team tried their best to do. This also stems from new reports talking about Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg favoring Trump with donations. Some go as high as one million dollars.
This was for Trump’s inauguration fund which again made headlines, not to mention both CEOs paying Trump a separate personal visit at his residence in Florida’s Mar-a-Lago. So when Khan was asked to comment on these moves, she didn’t hesitate one bit.
She spoke about the FTC serving a very successful tenure under her leadership including lawsuits related to Amazon and Facebook. So it’s obvious that with a new person in charge, both tech giants will try to work their charm on rolling out ‘sweetheart deals’ to try and get away with a lot.
Khan hopes that her predictions are wrong but again, only time can tell what happens in the end. For now, she concluded that Facebook will go on trial in the spring of this year while Amazon’s trial begins fall of next year.
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