Musk Says FTC Probe of Twitter Is ‘Weaponization’ of Government and ‘Serious Attack’ on Constitution

Republicans in Congress said the FTC’s aggressive investigation is an attempt to harass the company and pry into deliberations that are outside the agency’s mandate.

AP/Gregory Bull, file
The Twitter splash page on a digital device, April 25, 2022. AP/Gregory Bull, file

Elon Musk is calling efforts by the Federal Trade Commission to force his company Twitter to release details about the journalists with whom it collaborated on the “Twitter files” exposés an effort in truth suppression by the Biden administration and a violation of the First Amendment.

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