On Monday, Andrew Ferguson, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), announced that his agency had reached a settlement with Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), two of the largest advertising holding companies that had been targeted by the FTC’s recent advertiser boycott antitrust investigation. With the FTC’s investigation into these advertising companies […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened an investigation into Media Matters for America, a progressive nonprofit dedicated to “monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media,” for its role in an advertising boycott of X in May. On Monday, the FTC expanded the investigation to major advertisers, including Omnicron Group and the Interpublic […]
Alvaro Bedoya, former commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), formally resigned on Monday after he and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the other Democrat-appointed commissioner, were fired by President Donald Trump in March. Bedoya and Slaughter have challenged the president in court, with Slaughter arguing that the firings violated “the plain language of a statute and […]
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s stories include: A win for starter homes in Texas… …and a defeat for them in Arizona A new constitutional challenge to affordable housing fees in Denver A veto of a rent-recommendation algorithm ban in Colorado Starter Homes Are Resurrected in Texas… After suffering […]
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