The Federal Trade Commission issued a consumer alert on June 9, 2026, warning that clicking the first search result when looking for Medicare or other government health insurance programs “could cost ...

The federal government began enforcing the Take It Down Act (TIDA) this week, giving victims of nonconsensual intimate image abuse a federally backed right to demand removal – and significant ...

In November 2025, social media users (archived) began posting screenshots (archived) of an email purportedly from PayPal (archived) about money they had apparently received from an "FTC Prime ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson has appointed Levi Swank as Deputy Director of the agency's ...

Scammers are calling people across the country, claiming to be Federal Trade Commission agents, flashing fake badge numbers, and pressuring targets to empty their bank accounts through wire transfers, ...