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The feds and the power to regulate social media.

I'm David Brancaccio from Washington, D.C. today the Federal Trade Commission wants to bar meta platforms

from profiting from data collected on miners. Now in turn, Meta, the Facebook-instagram

parent firm, is suing the FTC for allegedly violating the

Constitution. The case is another challenge to the powers of federal agencies

in general which the Supreme Court justices this week seemed to prepare to limit Marketplace's Nova Safo, he's here with more.

Yeah, Meta's lawsuit is challenging the use of administrative law judges, David.

These are in-house independent judges that decide civil matters at federal agencies.

Now in this case, at the Federal Trade Commission, it's a question of whether the FTC can reopen

a consent agreement from three years ago in which Meta paid a

record five billion dollar fine for privacy violations.

The FTC is claiming that Meta is not fully complying with that agreement and has violated promises to secure the privacy

of its younger users.

The agency wants to make changes including barring some data collection through virtual

reality and imposing limits on face recognition technology.

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