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You: "Hey have you fed the cats yet" Me: "I'm sorry, that's outside the scope of my investigation." — PolitiTweet.org

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So. Now that I’ve taken a breath, here’s the next battleground: The FTC clearly wants more power and resources from Congress. Whether it gets what it wants will likely turn on lawmakers’ views of the FTC's performance today. — PolitiTweet.org

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Commissioner Phillips says "this might have looked different” if the United States had a national privacy law. Hint hint… — PolitiTweet.org

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Simons says the FTC didn’t need to depose Zuckerberg because the agency had lots of documents and emails showing the violations. “We knew what the violations were." — PolitiTweet.org

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DOJ’s Gus Eyler says the Facebook settlement is "the second-largest penalty obtained [by DOJ] in any context." — PolitiTweet.org

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Commissioner Christine Wilson is using the settlement announcement as an opportunity to call for legislation expanding the FTC’s powers to hold companies accountable. — PolitiTweet.org

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Also let me just reiterate here that Facebook’s opening offer was literally a fine of… $0. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TonyRomm: yup, hundreds of millions. good get by Brian to get on record. here's my story from Monday detailing this behind-scenes tussl… — PolitiTweet.org

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FTC Chair Joe Simons is addressing complaints the Facebook settlement is too weak. “Would it have been nice to get $10 billion?” he says. Sure, but “we would have to go to court” and come away with “far less relief.” "The only real world choice here was to take a settlement." — PolitiTweet.org

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That’s obviously less than the $5 billion it ultimately agreed to pay, but also a far cry from the double-digit billions the FTC initially sought as its opening position. — PolitiTweet.org

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Also new: Facebook’s opening offer to the FTC when they sat down to talk fines? $0, James Kohm, director of the FTC’s enforcement division, told me in an interview this morning. FB later upped that to $100 million, but its highest offer was only $1 billion. — PolitiTweet.org

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JUST IN: The FTC has announced an unprecedented $5 billion settlement with Facebook over its privacy mishaps https://t.co/8mpC327Iiw — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: The Justice Department is launching a wide-spectrum antitrust investigation of the tech industry, covering what looks to be a range of companies and types of conduct: https://t.co/muR55zX7Yf — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donie: FBI Director Wray tells Congress he convened a group of top FBI officials for a presentation on deepfake videos – an emerging te… — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s 2015 all over again! — PolitiTweet.org

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Huawei says it’s laying off 600 U.S. workers and blaming it on the Trump administration’s restrictions: https://t.co/ia4RbHQfhD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SchneiderCNN: MORE: Mueller will have a prepared opening statement that has not been seen by DOJ, according to the spox. His testimony… — PolitiTweet.org

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Caution on the Internet is always advised, but it’s probably safe if the FTC links to it from its own help page https://t.co/A19wNUPzNE https://t.co/jTVTQEFLNT — PolitiTweet.org

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A reader reports that he’s getting this warning message from McAfee when trying to access the @FTC's Equifax settlement site. Just great. https://t.co/OsT4Dd7Ne7 — PolitiTweet.org

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FTC Chairman Joe Simons is using today’s Equifax settlement to call for federal legislation that gives the FTC the power to fine companies for first-time violations of the FTC Act. — PolitiTweet.org

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Equifax has settled with the FTC over its massive 2017 data breach — agreeing to pay up to $700 million: https://t.co/0TGISXMvoi — PolitiTweet.org

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Never in a million years would I have guessed that the most divisive thing on the Internet would someday be... cats — PolitiTweet.org

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Google’s Stadia service will eventually have data consumption controls to help players deal with ISP data caps, per a reddit AMA. https://t.co/JHVmQ0zGj4 https://t.co/6OXdMgpywL — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lydiadepillis: This @gingerthomp1 piece about how a CPB agent rationalized his job warehousing kids separated from their parents at the… — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlexKoppelman Quick! Change it now! — PolitiTweet.org

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Today in rejected headlines: PENTAGON JEDI CONTRACT: IS TRUMP ORACLE’S ONLY HOPE???? https://t.co/aXYosHtetr — PolitiTweet.org

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IBM responds to Trump’s remarks: "IBM has long raised serious concerns about the structure of the JEDI procurement. We continue to believe that the Department of Defense and our men and women in uniform would be best served by a multi-cloud strategy." — PolitiTweet.org

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Just went back and watched the clip with Trump’s answer on Amazon. Here’s Trump's full response: https://t.co/tvLeOedOYE — PolitiTweet.org

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Via pool, Trump told reporters that “great companies” like Microsoft and Oracle are complaining about the Pentagon’s cloud contract potentially being awarded to Amazon and that he may investigate. This isn’t the first time this has come up: https://t.co/5jzsBdp5e0 https://t.co/iIEWv7KxMz — PolitiTweet.org

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YES @MikeHumePost YOU DID IT https://t.co/W3K1nw4DSS — PolitiTweet.org