Daily Wire
President Donald Trump’s top consumer protection and antitrust official has approved a massive $13.5 billion merger that will reshape the advertising industry, effectively putting the final nail in the coffin of coordination against outlets based on their political viewpoints.
The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday morning that it has decided not to block a merger between Omnicom and IPG, two rival firms which together make up a third of the world’s “Big Six” advertising agencies. But rather than rubber stamp the deal, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson extracted a major concession: the firms have agreed to cease all coordination related to viewpoint discrimination, refrain from any coordination in the future, and submit to strict compliance mandates. More
Did they make a pinky promise to stop such activities?
Or they get a sternly worded letter.
FFS… So, basically they did jack fucking shit… i.e. the usual.
GARM, which billed itself as a “small, non-profit initiative”, was funded by USAID. Musk sued them into oblivion and then made sure they won’t be back by cutting off their grift funds with DOGE. That’s where most of the “coordination” came from, and it would be more accurate to call it “bullying” I think advertising agencies, in spite of their internal woke nags, will be glad to do business without busybody, government-funded “non-profits” like GARM trying to force a particular political agenda on them and their clients.
Laws and regulations prevent crime. Everybody know that. When murder was made a crime, it stopped. Wait…
They’ll just put more non whites & homosexuals in their ads
The agreement was signed and posted for public viewing in the Epstein file.