Since Lina Khan was appointed Federal Trade Commission chair in 2021, she’s taken on Meta, Microsoft, Twitter and Amazon, and that’s made her a lightning rod for controversy and criticism. A number of her antitrust moves against big tech have been met with setbacks and losses.

WSJ breaks down the battles she’s picked to block mergers, why she’s already lost some of them and where she goes from here.

0:00 Khan battling big tech
0:29 Khan’s FTC
4:09 How Khan got to the FTC
5:45 Controversy and criticism

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