Khan’s first FTC test: Saving a monopoly lawsuit against Facebook

Getting the case back on track rests with the 32-year-old Khan, who rose to prominence in the antitrust world by advocating for more forceful competition enforcement against tech companies. — Bloomberg

Just two weeks into her tenure as chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan has been handed her first crisis: how to rescue the agency’s near-dead monopoly lawsuit against Facebook Inc and keep antitrust enforcement against the biggest technology companies on track.

On Monday, a federal judge in Washington dismissed the FTC’s landmark antitrust complaint against Facebook and a parallel complaint by a coalition of states, both of which sought to break up the company.