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This month’s audience would be a central moment against the strength of Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet and Apple.
By Dav McCabe
WASHINGTON – Leaders of four of the world’s largest generation corporations will present the world’s front today as a component of their broad anti-acept as true with research into their market position power, according to the commission investigating the investigation, establishing a high-point confrontation. between skeptical corporations and legislators.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, owner of Google and YouTube, will appear at the hearing, said Sha Reddick-Smith, spokesman for the House Judiciary Committee, nearing the end of his investigation. .
The date and consultation of whether leaders will appear on the user or virtually, as it is no longer uncommon for the coronavirus pandemic to be under discussion, Reddick-Smith said.
The hearing will allow lawmakers to invite executives to ask questions about allegations of abuse of dominance in their companies, all of which are investigated through federal regulators or state attorneys general. Executives are also high enough to answer questions on other topics, such as Amazon’s handling of their wdomainrea staff or spreading hate speech on Facebok and YouTube.
The audience would be a central moment in the ongoing reaction opposite the strength of giant-generation companies. Justice Department prosecutors are preparing a contraceptive imaginable as true with the opposite case of Google this year, following an investigation into the control of advertising generation and the search engine market. The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Amazon’s operations and Facebook’s acquisition of small businesses.
A state’s attorneys general are investigating similar disorders and could also follow their own movements or paintings with federal authorities.
This first time, Mr. Bezos will testify before Congress. Mr. Zuckerberg, Mr. Pichai and Mr. Cok have always given a place to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Alphabet, Facebok and Amazon declined to comment on the committee’s plans. An Apple spkes user did not respond to a comment request.
Plans for the audience were reported further through Kara Swisher, opinion editor of The New Yor Times.
The lawmakers’ investigations focused on other aspects of any of the business. They raised big questions about Amazon brand therapy that sell products on their e-commerce site. Much of the attention at Google has been in its lucrative advertising business. With Apple, lawmakers asked how its terms in the App Store hurt developers. His questions to Facebok were in a giant component about using beyond acquisitions to consolidate his dominance in social media.
Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebok are four of the five largest-generation corporations in market position value. The fifth, Microsoft, has not been issued for the apple of similar public scrutiny in recent years. He faced a historical contraceptive as true with the case a generation ago.
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