Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is joining in on the House Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee’s investigation into the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after a report released by the subcommittee last week revealed the agency may have engaged in a “harassment campaign” against Twitter.
Cruz, ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the weaponization subcommittee, demanded numerous documents and communications from the FTC in a letter on Friday in response to the report.
They charged in the letter, addressed to FTC chairwoman Lina Khan, that the FTC sent “inappropriate and burdensome demands” to Twitter after Elon Musk bought the company in October 2022.
The FTC “harassed Twitter in wake of Mr. Musk’s acquisition,” Cruz and Jordan wrote.
“The strong inference” from the FTC’s demands to Twitter “is that Twitter’s rediscovered focus on free speech is being met with politically motivated attempts to thwart Elon Musk’s goals,” the subcommittee report stated.
The FTC sent a dozen letters containing more than 350 demands to Twitter in a ten-week span after Musk completed his purchase of the company, the report found.
