Twitter Asks to End FTC Order Over Data Privacy Practices
- Company lawyers claim FTC intensified probe due to Musk
- FTC Chair Lina Khan is set to appear before Congress today
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Twitter Inc. asked a federal court in California Thursday to terminate or pare back an order that requires the Federal Trade Commission to oversee the company’s privacy practices.
Twitter’s lawyers wrote that the FTC intensified an investigation into Twitter once billionaire Elon Musk bought the platform last March, opening up an investigation into the company that “has spiraled out of control and become tainted by bias.”