The Federal Trade Commission is defending its ethics chief following a Wall Street Journal report Friday highlighting that she owned stock in Meta when she recommended that FTC Chair Lina Khan recuse herself from a case involving the company.

Hours after the report’s publication, Khan and the agency’s other two commissioners, all Democrats, issued a statement standing by Lorielle Pankey, a Harvard law grad who serves as the agency’s associate general counsel for ethics.

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