{"id":37676,"date":"2021-07-14T23:19:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37676"},"modified":"2021-07-14T23:19:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:19:51","slug":"facebook-petitions-for-ftc-chairs-recusal-in-antitrust-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37676","title":{"rendered":"Facebook petitions for FTC chair&#8217;s recusal in antitrust case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is seeking Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair\u00a0Lina Khan&#8217;s recusal from participating in decisions about how the agency proceeds with its antitrust case against the social media giant, according to a petition the company filed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The company argues Khan must recuse herself over public statements she made before she was confirmed to the commission and named chair earlier this year when she accused Facebook of conduct that &#8220;meets the elements of an antitrust offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s petition calls out Khan\u2019s time working for the advocacy group Open Markets Institute, her academic writing, and, most recently, her time as an aide on the House Judiciary Committee\u2019s antitrust investigation into tech giants.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s petition seeking to recuse Khan comes after Amazon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vhjmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfvpvkpf_dshtcchphftmpmhggmcs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vhjmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfvpvkpf_dshtcchphftmpmhggmcs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626410050871000&amp;usg=AFQjCNENZt8OkkMTrjcufsZEw_xsL77wKw\">sent a similar request<\/a>\u00a0to the FTC last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is seeking Federal Trade Commission&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37677,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37676\/revisions\/37677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}