Elon Musk’s X Loses Bid to Scrap FTC Privacy Order

A federal judge denied X Corp.’s request to modify or terminate a consent order between the social-media company acquired by Elon Musk last year and the Federal Trade Commission over how the platform handled users’ information.

In a decision Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson in the Northern District of California said his court lacked the power to grant X relief from another tribunal’s orders. The judge also denied X’s request to stop a deposition of Musk by the FTC.