Original broadcast date: 23 April 2025

Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya took questions from The Verge podcaster Nilay Patel about their abrupt firing from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, its effect on other agencies, and antitrust cases against Meta and Amazon. They warned of damage to independent agencies overseeing critical areas of American life from finance to law enforcement, workplace safety, consumer prices, and personal privacy, including children's privacy.