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The Federal Trade Commission has acknowledged a wide-ranging investigation into Twitter's privacy practices under new CEO Elon Musk.

The Federal Trade Commission has acknowledged a wide-ranging investigation into Twitter’s privacy practices after a House subcommittee on Tuesday disclosed a dozen letters from the agency to the company seeking information about its operations under new CEO Elon Musk.

In response, the FTC said in a statement that the probe is consistent with both the agency’s mission as well as its specific legal duty to enforce promises by Twitter that it would safeguard users’ personal information. “Protecting consumers’ privacy is exactly what the FTC is supposed to do,” said agency spokesman Douglas Farrar.

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Wow. Literal tyranny. we need to disband these agencies

They’re doing this now because when Dorsey ran the show he complied with anything repressive that they asked for. Now that Elon won’t cower under their control they make threats. Flip’em the bird Elon

Glaring Federal over-reach.

Another government sponsored witch hunt...

Because they're scared of the twitter files. As evidence shows the white house wants the names of every journalist given the Information

Talk about using the DOJ to do your bidding. SMH.

Oh, so now they care?!?! Now that it's not their puppet? God, this country is turning into one big joke, and our founding fathers are rolling in their graves.

The radical Left is very angry Twitter has freedom. Weaponizing the GOV to attack who they want to is BAD NEWS.

So the Democrats sick the FTC on Twitter because they don’t like that elonmusk is not silencing conservatives. I say Musk just shut the site down and see how they all deal without it.

The government doesn't like Elon looking into their manipulation of social media

“Investigation” The kind this administration approves of-searching people for crimes, instead of searching crimes for people.

Yet another political witch hunt initiated by Biden's government storm troopers.

Definitely wondering why only TikTok is considered a security threat. This man’s entire car business depends on China.

The FTC is overstep their bounds .Twitter is not government personally own.

Upset that they got caught trying to censor free speech through a private company.

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