Donald Trump has picked one of the commissioners at the US’s competition watchdog to replace Lina Khan as its next chair.

The president-elect announced Andrew Ferguson as his choice to chair the Federal Trade Commission, describing him in a Truth Social post on Tuesday evening as having a “proven record of standing up to Big Tech censorship”.

Before being sworn in as an FTC commissioner in April of this year, Ferguson had previously served as Virginia’s solicitor-general and, prior to that, as chief counsel to Republican senator Mitch McConnell.

“Andrew will be the most America First, and pro-innovation FTC Chair in our Country’s History,” Trump wrote.

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