Ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, proper, attends the House Judiciary Committee listening to titled Revoking Your Rights: The Ongoing Crisis in Abortion Care Access, in Rayburn Building, on Wednesday, May 18, 2022.
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A Republican-led House committee mentioned Wednesday it subpoenaed the Federal Trade Commission for paperwork associated to the company’s inquiry into Twitter.
The subpoena comes after the House Judiciary Committee requested the FTC handy over the knowledge voluntarily final month. The request got here after the Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government launched a report about what Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, referred to as “inappropriate and burdensome demands” by the FTC of Twitter across the time that billionaire Elon Musk acquired the corporate.
Jordan wrote in a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan Wednesday that the company’s compliance with the sooner demand “has been woefully insufficient.”
Jordan mentioned the FTC’s earlier response sought to hyperlink its inquiry into Twitter to a privacy-related order it is tasked with implementing. But Jordan mentioned that ignored different facets of the committee’s questions concerning the FTC’s probe.
An FTC spokesperson mentioned the company had provided to transient congressional workers on its inquiry however that they hadn’t but taken the FTC up on that supply.
“The FTC respects the important role of Congressional oversight,” FTC spokesperson Douglas Farrar mentioned in a press release. “We have made multiple offers to brief Chairman Jordan’s staff on our investigation into Twitter. Those are standing offers made prior to this entirely unnecessary subpoena.”
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