HAVENS: It’s Clear Who Biden’s FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak Is Working For … And It’s Not The American People
When President Biden nominated Melissa Holyoak to be the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), industry observers warned that she was too friendly to Big Tech companies, and now it’s clear they were right: It took her less than two months to make it clear that she would block bipartisan efforts to rein in Google, Apple, Facebook, […]
FTC nominee Melissa Holyoak traded chummy emails with Google-backed firm that ‘advocates abolishing antitrust rules’
Emails obtained by the Post reveal close ties between Federal Trade Commission candidate Melissa Holyoke and former colleagues at a Google-funded think tank, including one who said the FTC should be “burned down.'' One person also wrote, “It's a waste.'' Holyoake, Utah's Republican attorney general, previously served as an attorney for the Competitive Enterprise Association […]