The Federal Trade Commission removed all positions from the term of powers of President Joe Biden in the office from his business blog. This online publication historically gave advice on how companies could best comply with consumer protection rules covering topics such as artificial intelligence and how large technological companies collected and used customer data. Currently, it has no content published from December 21, 2020 to March 7, 2025.
Selected some of the noticeable content of more than 300 blog messages that were removed. Several FTC officials and former officials spoke with the publication about changes anonymously from the fear of compensation.
“From the point of view of the message for industry about what our expectations of compliance with the requirements were, which, in a sense, is the most important part of forced actions, they are trying to simply erase from history from history,” one of the sources said.
FTC is headed by presidential candidate Donald Trump, Andrew Ferguson. During his appointment, Ferguson He would use the Department to “put the end of Vendetta Big Tech against competition and freedom of speech.” He and other Republicans claim that many platforms are censored by right -wing content, adding a heavy layer of irony to the latest FTC actions.
“They talk about a big game on censorship,” another source said WiredThe field “But in the end, that which really falls on the results of these companies, is what data they can collect, how they can use these data, regardless of whether they can train their own models on this data, and if this administration plans to remove the leg from gas when they strengthen their work on censorship.”