WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, along with Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today wrote to Andrew Ferguson, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging the agency to reject X's petition to terminate the company's privacy responsibilities under a 2022 FTC order. The FTC unanimously approved the 2022 order in response to Twitter's repeated privacy violations, which were well publicized before Elon Musk purchased the company and rebranded it as "X."
In its petition, X makes the extraordinary claim that rebranding Twitter as X somehow frees the company from t...