Congressional Republicans subpoena the FTC for asking Twitter too many questions

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chair of the committee, licensed the subpoena despatched to FTC Chair Lina Khan, accusing the company of refusing to adjust to a handful of different requests the committee has remodeled the previous few months. The demand requires the FTC at hand over all inner communications associated to Musk’s October 2022 buy of Twitter. 

In his letter to Khan Wednesday, Jordan accused the FTC of creating “inappropriate and burdensome calls for” of Musk’s Twitter, calling the company’s responses to previous requests for data “woefully inadequate.”

Shortly after Musk bought Twitter final yr, the FTC stated it was monitoring the platform’s skills to guard the safety of customers’ data. In a latest report, Jordan’s committee discovered that the FTC had despatched at the very least a dozen demand letters to the corporate since Musk took over. 

“The FTC respects the vital function of Congressional oversight. We’ve got made a number of presents to transient Chairman Jordan’s employees on our investigation into Twitter. These are standing presents made previous to this solely pointless subpoena,” FTC spokesman Douglas Farrar stated in an announcement to The Verge Wednesday.

The FTC’s investigation is reportedly centered across the platform’s skills to uphold information safety guarantees it made to the company greater than 10 years in the past. In 2011, Twitter reached an settlement with the FTC to settle costs that the corporate had mishandled person information, finally permitting hackers unauthorized entry to person accounts. As a part of that settlement, Twitter was required to create “a complete privateness and data safety program” to guard customers.