President Donald Trump's Federal Trade Commission has reportedly taken aim at leftist advertising cartels that allegedly coordinated a boycott to starve conservative media outlets and squash free speech online.
According to several reports, the FTC launched investigations into approximately a dozen media and advertising groups for potentially violating antitrust laws.
'These so-called "ratings outfits" are the left's latest attempt to silence conservatives.'
The agency's new chairman, Andrew Ferguson, previously expressed concerns about advertisers coordinating to ban certain ideas.
During an April antitrust conference , he said, "I am deeply concerned ... if advertisers either get in a room together and say, 'We're not going to do advertising next to this idea,' or they say, 'We're