Meta, FTC Agree to Pause Challenge to Agency Constitutionality

Meta Platforms Inc. and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to stay proceedings in a case challenging the agency’s constitutionality pending a decision by the Supreme Court in a similar case involving the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Meta sued the FTC in November to stop its efforts to modify a 2020 privacy settlement with the tech behemoth. Meta alleged in the lawsuit that the FTC’s administration process is biased in favor of its commissioners in the way an independent court would not be.

US District Judge Randolph Moss in March denied Meta’s bid to pause the agency’s proceedings while the lawsuit ...