WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Lina Khan said that she wouldn’t rule out a settlement for Meta’s Facebook (NASDAQ;), which was sued by the agency in 2020. However, Khan indicated that there were high standards to reach any kind agreement.

She also criticised what she called a lot of clearly illegal deals in a Tuesday interview. Either she doesn’t enjoy behavioral remedies that promise to change a policy for a specified number of consecutive years, or when they are backed by companies.

In December 2020, Facebook was sued by the FTC under former President Donald Trump. The FTC claimed that Facebook had acted in an illegal manner to preserve its social media monopoly. Khan answered questions about whether a settlement is possible. He said, “We have provided the relief we believe would be needed. You can calculate your chances of Facebook agreeing to some relief.

FTC requested a judge order Facebook’s dismantling of its Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions in 2012.

She said, “But, of course, because we are an agency, it is always about, you know? preserving resources. How to think about settlements. The tradeoffs against pursuing lawsuits. But this (is) (an) extremely important matter for agency and we are serious about the relief we seek.”

Her criticisms of mergers that were not approved by antitrust authorities also came from her.

She stated that she sees companies propose illegal, face-illegal mergers at an unacceptablely high rate. Additionally, companies sometimes know the law and will propose solutions. This is the wrong way to go. We need to promote an environment in which parties come to us with clean deals and not deals that appear to be illegal.

She said that behavioral remedies such as putting firewalls between different parts of the company do not solve the underlying problem.