Leah 'AntiTrustButVerify' Nylen
@leahnylen.bsky.social
I cover antitrust. Currently reporting for Bloomberg News. Former Politico, MLex, CQ. Email me at lnylen2 at bloomberg.net. On Signal: leahnylen.88. Opinions are my own (obvi).
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👋🏻 new followers. I’m Leah. I’m a journalist who’s spent the past decade covering monopolies, price-fixing, mega-mergers and legal efforts to rein them in.
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New filing: "FTC v. Meta"
Doc #708: Notice of Appeal to DC Circuit Court
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#CL18735353
Doc #708: Notice of Appeal to DC Circuit Court
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#CL18735353
January 20, 2026 at 8:46 PM
New filing: "FTC v. Meta"
Doc #708: Notice of Appeal to DC Circuit Court
Download PDF | View Full Case
#CL18735353
Doc #708: Notice of Appeal to DC Circuit Court
Download PDF | View Full Case
#CL18735353
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"As it seeks to build AI tools many users don’t want, Meta Platforms Inc. has sacrificed a high-quality product adored by droves." Dave Lee pulls no virtual punches here.
Meta Is Killing Off Its Only Good Virtual Reality App
As it seeks to build AI tools many users don’t want, Meta Platforms Inc. has sacrificed a high-quality product adored by droves. Supernatural, the virtual reality fitness app, is being wound down as p...
www.bloomberg.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:35 PM
"As it seeks to build AI tools many users don’t want, Meta Platforms Inc. has sacrificed a high-quality product adored by droves." Dave Lee pulls no virtual punches here.
Small antitrust nugget in this: As part of its cuts, Meta says the fitness app Supernatural will stop creating new content. The move comes 2.5 years after the FTC unsuccessfully sued to block the deal, arguing that Meta's acquisition would dampen competition www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices
Meta Platforms Inc. is beginning to cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company’s Reality Labs division, part of a plan to redirect resources from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI wearab...
www.bloomberg.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Small antitrust nugget in this: As part of its cuts, Meta says the fitness app Supernatural will stop creating new content. The move comes 2.5 years after the FTC unsuccessfully sued to block the deal, arguing that Meta's acquisition would dampen competition www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter seeking classified state documents. Nothing she wrote about could be considered classified. They simply want to suppress dissent via intimidation. Don't let them. Here is what she wrote. Please share.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:11 PM
The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter seeking classified state documents. Nothing she wrote about could be considered classified. They simply want to suppress dissent via intimidation. Don't let them. Here is what she wrote. Please share.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump nominated MacNeil, a Republican donor and billionaire founder of car accessories maker WeatherTech to the FTC after the Senate failed to confirm him last year as Ambassador at Large for Industrial and Manufacturing Competitiveness.
Trump Nominates David Macneil to US Federal Trade Commission
President Donald Trump nominated David MacNeil to be a US Federal Trade Commissioner, according to statement posted on the White House website Tuesday.
www.bloomberg.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Trump nominated MacNeil, a Republican donor and billionaire founder of car accessories maker WeatherTech to the FTC after the Senate failed to confirm him last year as Ambassador at Large for Industrial and Manufacturing Competitiveness.
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Important study. Essentially it finds a straight line between the pro-corporate concentration policies of Reagan/Clinton/Thatcher/Blair and the decline of democracy. Interestingly, the mechanism is not income inequality but the raw power the biggest corps wield over government.
How Rising Corporate Market Power Undermines Democracy - ProMarket
In new research, Seda Basihos investigates the relationship between a decline in market competition and global democratic backsliding. She finds that market concentration leads to increasing…
www.promarket.org
January 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Important study. Essentially it finds a straight line between the pro-corporate concentration policies of Reagan/Clinton/Thatcher/Blair and the decline of democracy. Interestingly, the mechanism is not income inequality but the raw power the biggest corps wield over government.
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X is producing deepfakes at a rate 84x higher than the top 5 dedicated deepfake sites combined, according to an analysis. Victims say there's no recourse. Their images are still up despite reports to X, and those who speak out become targets. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 7, 2026 at 2:33 PM
X is producing deepfakes at a rate 84x higher than the top 5 dedicated deepfake sites combined, according to an analysis. Victims say there's no recourse. Their images are still up despite reports to X, and those who speak out become targets. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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A bunch of artists and small retailers spent the week between Christmas and the New Year wondering why Amazon had duplicated their product listings on its site, without telling them: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "This is my business. It’s not their business.”
Amazon AI Tool Blindsides Merchants by Offering Products Without Their Knowledge
Sometime around Christmas, Sarah Burzio noticed that the holiday sales bump for her stationery business included some mysterious new customers: a flurry of orders from anonymous email addresses associ...
www.bloomberg.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:29 PM
A bunch of artists and small retailers spent the week between Christmas and the New Year wondering why Amazon had duplicated their product listings on its site, without telling them: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "This is my business. It’s not their business.”
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As we, the good people of America, remember J6 with horror and sadness, spare a thought for the residents of the city it happened in.
DC is often overlooked as a place where folks live, but this trauma happened to us, on our streets, in the place we call home.
DC is often overlooked as a place where folks live, but this trauma happened to us, on our streets, in the place we call home.
January 6, 2026 at 2:32 PM
As we, the good people of America, remember J6 with horror and sadness, spare a thought for the residents of the city it happened in.
DC is often overlooked as a place where folks live, but this trauma happened to us, on our streets, in the place we call home.
DC is often overlooked as a place where folks live, but this trauma happened to us, on our streets, in the place we call home.
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Another great hire for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: Sam Levine, Lina Khan's head of consumer protection at the FTC, will head the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.
December 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Another great hire for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: Sam Levine, Lina Khan's head of consumer protection at the FTC, will head the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.
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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
"There's no antitrust. Antitrust went away when we got a ruling that it was okay to pay Apple $20B to keep everybody else out," CNBC's Jim Cramer.
December 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"There's no antitrust. Antitrust went away when we got a ruling that it was okay to pay Apple $20B to keep everybody else out," CNBC's Jim Cramer.
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FTC Weighs Antitrust Challenge of Henkel Bid for Adhesive Maker
The US Federal Trade Commission is preparing a lawsuit to challenge an acquisition by Henkel AG of part of Pittsburgh Paint Co., which is owned by private equity firm American Industrial Partners, acc...
www.bloomberg.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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My favorite read of the day, from Keith Alexander at Bloomberg Law. Full of fabulous details -- including that the jury included a professional, stand-up comedian >
news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...
news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...
Jurors in Sandwich Thrower Case Found Charges ‘Bunch of Baloney’
Two of the 12 jurors who found the accused DC sandwich thrower not guilty of assaulting a federal officer discuss why the case didn’t hold up.
news.bloomberglaw.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My favorite read of the day, from Keith Alexander at Bloomberg Law. Full of fabulous details -- including that the jury included a professional, stand-up comedian >
news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...
news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar...