Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are calling out the FTC over what appears to be an attempt to bully an independent auditor into condemning Twitter for privacy violations.
The allegation emerged in a motion filed by X Corp, the holding company established by Elon Musk to manage Twitter, asking the U.S. district court for the northern district of California to terminate a privacy settlement Twitter made with the FTC, which allows the latter to monitor and enforce Twitter’s compliance.US President Joe Biden arrives to deliver his keynote speech at Ulster University in Belfast, during his visit to the island of Ireland. Picture date: Wednesday April 12, 2023.
Although the settlement was made before Twitter’s change in ownership, X Corp’s filing alleges that the FTC became increasingly aggressive after the takeover by Musk, a self-declared Republican and “free speech absolutist.” , the FTC even sought to pressure a supposedly independent auditor, Ernst & Young, into condemning Twitter.Recent sworn testimony details how the FTC, through a series of interactions with EY immediately after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, attempted to co-opt EY’s independent assessment in order to generate evidence of “deficiencies in Twitter’s privacy and information security program.
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