House Republicans Subpoena FTC Chair Lina Khan for Documents on Twitter Probe

House Judiciary Committee says FTC ignored document requests
FTC spokesperson calls subpoena ‘entirely unnecessary’

Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during the Spring Enforcers Summit at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, March 27, 2023. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg

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By Emily Birnbaum and Billy House

April 12, 2023 at 4:58 PM UTC

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The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed documents from Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan related to its ongoing probe of Twitter Inc.

Chairman Jim Jordan, in a letter to Khan, called the FTC’s Twitter investigation an “abuse of its statutory authorities” and said Khan’s response to the committee’s written questions “woefully insufficient.”