Facebook asks for US FTC Chair Lina Khan’s recusal

WASHINGTON – Facebook sent a petition to the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday asking for Chair Lina Khan to be recused from the FTC’s antitrust case against the company, a step that could imperil the agency’s lawsuit against it.

The FTC sued Facebook in December, alleging that the social media giant broke antitrust law in buying photo-sharing site Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp. A U.S. judge in June dismissed the complaint but gave the agency a roadmap for how to rewrite it and gave it a deadline of July 29 to refile it.