Facebook sought to block Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan from participating in decisions about the agency’s high-profile antitrust case against the social network, arguing that the prominent technology critic couldn’t be impartial. The social media company argues in a new recusal petition that Khan’s work before joining the commission shows that she “had already decided the material facts relevant to Facebook’s liability in the Commission’s pending antitrust lawsuit and already reached legal conclusions that Facebook was liable under the antitrust laws.”
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