President Biden named Lina Khan as chair of the Federal Trade Commission after the Senate confirmed her earlier in the day. Lina Khan is a prominent critic of Big Tech. She wrote a widely hailed paper on the failure of antitrust laws to rein in Amazon while she was a law student at Yale. Senator Elizabeth Warren celebrated the news, tweeting, “With Chair Lina Khan at the helm, we have a huge opportunity to make big, structural change by reviving antitrust enforcement and fighting monopolies that threaten our economy, our society, and our democracy.”
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