Ben Remaly

To abide by ethics rules, today I'm stepping down as an FTC commissioner. I'm deeply grateful for the chance to have served my country in this way. And I look forward to building our ability to fight fraudsters and monopolists - regardless of how wealthy they are.

Scoop: Two top Justice Department anti-trust officials have been ousted, multiple sources told @JakeMRosen and me. Both were deputies to Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater, who leads the team that fights monopolies at the DOJ. Roger Alford was principal deputy assistant…

The FCC celebrating a commitment to "unbiased journalism" as a concession for approving a merger. What are the boundaries of the FCC's "public interest" mandate?

NEW: DC federal court sides with @RKSlaughterFTC , finds her firing by the Trump Administration was illegal

AAG Slater: "The investigation nevertheless raised concerns about competition in the relevant markets for mobile wireless services and the availability of wireless spectrum needed to fuel competition and entry."

My remarks in Global Competition Review @gcr_alerts on the @FTC's recent 6(b) study on physician group mergers globalcompetitionreview.com/gcr-usa/articl…

NFL Players Association accuses NFL owners of orchestrating a wage-fixing agreement.

FTC order prevents "Omnicom from engaging in collusion or coordination to direct advertising away from media publishers based on the publishers’ political or ideological viewpoints."

And this isn't even all that new: courts have held contractual releases of (e.g.) patent claims can be anticompetitive. This type of contractual release of antitrust claims seems as or more likely to be anticompetitive. Full story from @BenRemaly at globalcompetitionreview.com/gcr-usa/articl…

Chatbots are replacing Google searches, eliminating the need to click on blue links and tanking referrals to news sites. As a result, traffic that publishers relied on for years is plummeting.⁦@thesimonetti⁩ ⁦@KatherineBlunt⁩ wsj.com/tech/ai/google…

Warner Bros in 2021: Buying Discovery will strengthen competition Warner Bros in 2025: splitting up (a lot of the same) assets will strengthen competition

Comm'r Holyoak is not wrong here: some courts have endorsed a rule that lets defendants avoid liability by crafting their own "fix" that won't even stop all the harm. That's a great reason to bring cases under the statute's second prong, as @RKSlaughterFTC, Bob Lande & I explain.

FTC v Amazon trial will start on February 9, 2027

DAAG Rinner: "Our commitment to robust enforcement is shared by the White House, which, I’m pleased to report, has approved the use of merger filing fees to support the Division’s budget for fiscal year 2026. We are very grateful for this support. When companies pay a merger…

The White House supports the DOJ's antitrust division being able to use merger filing fees for its FY 2026 budget, per Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bill Rinner. justice.gov/opa/speech/daa…

The Trump Administration has proposed cutting the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust budget by 11%, including the elimination of 51 employees. With @_AnnaLanglois globalcompetitionreview.com/gcr-usa/articl…