The Federal Trade Commission violated the First Amendment by prohibiting Omnicom from contracting with news ratings services as a condition of its merger with Interpublic Group, NewsGuard claims in a lawsuit filed Friday.
The FTC “is brazenly using its power not for any issue concerning trade or commerce, but rather to censor speech,” NewsGuard, which rates news sites for reliability, alleges in its complaint, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.
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