{"id":6966,"date":"2021-06-16T09:07:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:52:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:52:39","slug":"lina-khan-becomes-chair-of-u-s-ftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/lina-khan-becomes-chair-of-u-s-ftc\/","title":{"rendered":"Lina Khan Becomes Chair Of U.S. FTC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lina Khan, a prominent antitrust researcher and professor at Columbia Law School, was sworn in Tuesday as chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, in what is seen as a victory for progressives seeking a crackdown on technology companies that hold a large share of the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan served on the House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s antitrust panel, where she worked on a groundbreaking report on alleged abuses of market dominance by Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federal government and several states are pursuing a series of lawsuits and investigations against major technology companies, with the FTC suing both Facebook and Amazon and the Justice Department suing Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan wrote &#8220;Amazon&#8217;s Antitrust Paradox&#8221; for the Yale Law Journal in 2017, arguing that the traditional antitrust focus on price was not enough to identify antitrust damages by Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan was the former legal adviser to Commissioner Rohit Chopra, Biden&#8217;s choice to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-tech-antitrust-ftc-khan\/big-tech-critic-khan-becomes-u-s-ftc-chair-idUSKCN2DR20Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lina Khan was sworn in Tuesday as chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-public-sector"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7001,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions\/7001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}