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December 06, 2024

As chair, FTC commissioner touts he’d pull back on AI and fight trans care

A Federal Trade Commission member is lobbying President-elect Donald Trump to make him the agency’s chair by promising to “fight back against the trans agenda,” deemphasize artificial intelligence initiatives and subordinate the independent agency to the will of the incoming president.

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