{"id":887136,"date":"2024-12-12T11:14:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T05:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=887136"},"modified":"2024-12-12T11:14:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T05:44:41","slug":"donald-trump-picks-andrew-ferguson-to-head-ftc-what-this-may-mean-for-google-facebook-apple-and-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/12\/donald-trump-picks-andrew-ferguson-to-head-ftc-what-this-may-mean-for-google-facebook-apple-and-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump picks Andrew Ferguson to head FTC; what this may mean for Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President-elect Donald Trump has selected Andrew Ferguson to lead the Federal Trade Commission, marking a significant shift in the agency&#8217;s regulatory approach and signaling a potential softening of antitrust enforcement against big tech companies.<br \/>\nFerguson, currently a Republican commissioner at the FTC, will replace Lina Khan, whose aggressive stance against corporate consolidation drew criticism from Silicon Valley. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President-elect Donald Trump has selected Andrew Ferguson to lead the Federal Trade Commission, marking a significant shift in the agency&#8217;s regulatory approach and signaling a potential softening of antitrust enforcement against big tech companies. Ferguson, currently a Republican commissioner at the FTC, will replace Lina Khan, whose aggressive stance against corporate consolidation drew criticism from Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}