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FTC's Lina Khan isn't letting up on Big Tech even with her future in doubt

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FTC chairwoman Lina Khan has aggressively pursued lawsuits and investigations targeting tech giants.

The FTC recently signed off on a request to Microsoft that is hundreds of pages long and demands information about a long-running antitrust investigation of the tech giant.

Khan is not the only regulator turning up the dial in the final stretch of Biden 's term.

In the history of the FTC , Lande said, there have been just two periods of what he called "serious activism." One was under Democratic chairman Michael Pertschuk , who was the chair before President Reagan was elected. "The second was Lina Khan .".