Trump’s New FTC Chair Takes Fresh Perspective for Agency’s Role on Free Speech

March 25th, 2025 5:14 PM

The Federal Trade Commission under President Donald Trump will not tolerate pro-censorship Big Tech monopolies, according to the agency’s new chairman Andrew Ferguson.

Ferguson drew the connection between Big Tech’s abuse of market power and aggressive social media censorship during Tuesday’s Free State Foundation 17th Annual Policy Conference. Ferguson promised the audience that he is “looking for exercises of market power that might reveal themselves in censorship.” 

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