Donald Trump has picked one of many commissioners on the US’s competitors watchdog to switch Lina Khan as its subsequent chair.
The president-elect introduced Andrew Ferguson as his choose to chair the Federal Commerce Fee, describing him in a Reality Social put up on Tuesday night as having a “confirmed file of standing as much as Large Tech censorship”.
Earlier than being sworn in as an FTC commissioner in April of this yr, Ferguson had beforehand served as Virginia’s solicitor-general and, previous to that, as chief counsel to Republican senator Mitch McConnell.
“Andrew would be the most America First, and pro-innovation FTC Chair in our Nation’s Historical past” Trump wrote.
