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FTC's Khan need not recuse herself from Facebook lawsuit given FTC's prosecutor role, agency says in court filing

Facebook’s push for US Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to recuse herself from a monopolization case against the social media giant should fail because the agency is acting as a prosecutor and not an adjudicator in the matter, the agency argued in a court filing today.
“Facebook’s argument that

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

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