Ferguson said he will roll back the FTC's "anti-business agenda" while going after Big Tech companies for what he sees as censoring conservatives.

Federal Trade Commissioner Andrew Ferguson, whose appointment was held up by a prominent conservative in the Senate, was nominated on Tuesday by president-elect Donald Trump to lead the agency.

Donald Trump has named current commissioner Andrew Ferguson as the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair, the president-elect posted on Truth Social. Ferguson has previously decried what he called censorship by big tech and worked as an antitrust enforcer for the FTC and Department of Justice.