WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden has selected Lina Khan, an antitrust researcher who has focused her work on Big Tech’s immense market power, to chair the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a source briefed on the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
Khan, who teaches at Columbia Law School, was confirmed as an FTC commissioner on a bipartisan vote of 69 to 28 earlier on Tuesday.
(Reporting by David Shepardson, Diane Bartz and Nandita Bose; Editing by Leslie Adler)
