Elon Musk Responds After FTC Reportedly Makes 350+ Demands For ‘Specific’ Internal Company Information
According to Tuesday’s report, the Federal Trade Commission demanded that Twitter CEO Elon Muss turn over company communications as well information regarding mass layoffs and sit down for depositions in an investigation into his company.
A publication was published by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee report Tuesday is titled “The Weaponization of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC): An Agency’s Overreach to Harass Elon Musk’s Twitter,” This article details the alleged harassment Twitter by FTC officials, led by Lina Khan (Democrat).
“Consisting of over a dozen FTC demand letters to Twitter that — in the span of less than three months following Musk’s acquisition — make more than 350 specific demands, this information shows how the FTC has been attempting to harass Twitter and pry into the company’s decisions on matters outside of the FTC’s mandate,” House Judiciary Committee said Make a statement. “The timing, scope, and frequency of the FTC’s demands to Twitter suggest a partisan motivation to its action.”
One letter from the FTC to the company stated that the FTC was worried about changes made at the company. “impact Twitter’s ability to protect consumers’ information.”
Houses Judiciary reported on examples of FTC requests that they claimed had been met “little to no nexus to users’ privacy and information,” including:
- Information relating to journalists’ work protected by the First Amendment, including their work to expose abuses by Big Tech and the federal government;
- Each and every internal communication “relating to Elon Musk,” by any Twitter personnel — including communications sent or received by Musk — not limited by subject matter, since the day Musk bought the company;
- Find out if Twitter is available. “selling its office equipment”;
- All of the reasons why Twitter terminated former Twitter employee and FBI official Jim Baker;
- Use Twitter “first conceived of the concept for Twitter Blue,” Twitter’s new $8/month verified account subscription; and
- The information is broken down by “each department, division, and/or team,” regardless of whether the work done by these units had anything to do with privacy or information security.
“There is no logical reason, for example, why the FTC needs to know the identities of journalists engaging with Twitter,” The House Judiciary issued the following statement. “There is no logical reason why the FTC, on the basis of user privacy, needs to analyze all of Twitter’s personnel decisions. And there is no logical reason why the FTC needs every single internal Twitter communication about Elon Musk.”
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Musk addressed the FTC’s repeated demands via Twitter. “This is a serious attack on the Constitution by a federal agency.”
A federal agency is making a grave attack on the Constitution.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023
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