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Official account of FTC Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya. ***Commissioner Bedoya will never ask you for personal or bank information, or for a money transfer.***
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1/ Dear everyone who just went grocery shopping and saw this, There’s a person in government who could flick his pen and investigate what the hell is going on with eggs. No, not your congressman. His name is Andrew Ferguson. He’s the new head of the @FTC. Has he done that? No

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Since Washington can’t get it together, NYC must. Here’s your blueprint—I’ll aggressively go after price gouging in the Council. None of this is too much to ask for as is what hard working New Yorkers deserve.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Egg prices. Cash advance apps that rip you off. Landlords who trick you into higher rent. Housing prices. Wage theft. Drug shortages. Sports betting. CDL schools. Pig-butchering scams. Here's 10 things FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson could do today to help people with the cost of living.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Meanwhile

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

This is so on point. Chair Ferguson actually took steps to shut down comments on things like surveillance pricing - a nefarious tactic to RAISE prices. 1,457 days left…

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

"The cost of living is an emergency. This is a game for retweets on X—the kind of stunt that infuriates regular people who cannot make rent."

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

President Trump ordered government agencies to give Americans emergency relief on prices. FTC can do that. Our new Chairman, Andrew Ferguson, could have done that. He didn't. Instead, he put on a show about "DEI."

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

If you care about privacy, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is the moat important government agency you’ve never heard of. An independent watchdog against surveillance abuse. Who wins from this? Why do this?

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

On the matter of oaths, here is the oath that I and other federal officials took upon taking office. May we live up to it.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

This is what it looks like when FTC staff has full freedom to stop fraudsters and monopolists. When there are no free passes for the powerful. When the word of a consumer or a worker or a small business owner is just as important as that of any billionaire. Remember this.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Today is my last full day as Director of BCP. We’ve had in incredible run. Taking on junk fees, commercial surveillance, subscription traps, and more, we’ve advanced the most ambitious consumer protection agenda in decades. And as I detail below in a farewell post, we’ve delivered.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

The FTC has referred to the Department of Justice a complaint against Snap, Inc. The complaint pertains to the company’s deployment of an artificial intelligence powered chatbot, My AI, in its Snapchat application and the allegedly resulting risks and harms to young users of the application.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

This policy is supported by the best interpretation of the labor exemption, in light of the statutory text and existing Supreme Court case law (coming soon to Wake Forest Law Review) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

We have similar issues in the NZ grocery sector.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

My remarks on the labor exemption policy statement issued today:

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

The right to organize is fundamental. It's protected by the First Amendment and federal statute. It doesn't go away if you get a 1099 instead of a W-2. And it certainly shouldn't be blocked by antitrust law.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

The South Dakota grocer in Indian country, the Louisiana grocer where you get charbroiled oyster sauce, the North Tulsa grocer on Black Wall Street, the bodega that takes your deliveries: All deserve a level playing field against the billionaires they compete with. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

FTC Commissioner @bedoyaftc.bsky.social: “[W]hen powerful companies break the law, prosecutors give them the benefit of every shadow of every doubt — and when those companies’ interests run up against the rule of law, those rules are set aside or broken.”

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

In this op-ed, @bedoyaftc.bsky.social continues working to restore antitrust as a powerful legal tool that can address the problems faced by real people rather than a mere exercise in applying textbook economics, which the last 50 years show ignores the harsh realities endured by millions.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Important thread about how the FTC's decision today to reactivate a long-dormant antitrust law opens the way for a revival of local grocery stores, pharmacies, bookstores, and more. For rural and urban places that lack basic retail, this is a big step forward.

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

A crucial thread on how, and why, today’s FTC lawsuit is about so much more than liquor stores. It’s about a return to fairness as our economic guiding light and opportunity for small business and communities.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

1/ Two years ago, I stood in the dairy aisle of the last grocery in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. It's the poorest place in the US, with the lowest life expectancy. But the store, like a lot of independent retailers, was vibrant. Signs in English & Lakota. School pride gear on all the walls.

submitted 87 days ago • 8 comments

In 1936, Congress passed a law to level the playing field for rural grocers. For 25 years the government didn't enforce it. Today, FTC is suing Southern Glazer's so mom & pop grocery & liquor stores get the same discounts as their billionaire competitors. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment