US senator blasts FTC for falling short on Facebook and Google

The US Federal Trade Commission has failed to protect consumers in its policing of companies such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc, Republican Senator Josh Hawley told the agency’s chief. 

The FTC, which has a mandate to enforce antitrust and consumer protection statutes, has taken a “toothless” approach to these platforms, Hawley wrote in a letter to FTC Chairman Joseph Simons dated Monday.