FTC Rejected Ethics Advice for Khan Recusal on Meta Case (1)

The Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan declined to recuse herself from an FTC case against Meta Platforms Inc., despite the advice of the agency’s top ethics official, according to internal agency documents.

The FTC’s ethics official recommended that Khan remove herself from the case to avoid the appearance of bias, but left it up to Khan to decide, concluding it wasn’t an ethics violation if she took part.

The full scope of the advice hadn’t been available before Bloomberg obtained an unredacted version of the memo.

“In my opinion, there is a reasonable appearance concern with her ...