A jurisdictive hearing with the senior powers of Facebook, Google, Amazon, and National has been rescheduled for apex Eastern time on Wednesday. Originally scheduled for Monday, the hearing was bumped inadvertently a few days to procreate membership of Congress to pay respects. to the numbskull Rep. John Lewis, who died July 17th. Lewis will lie in state at the US Capitol abutting week.
The House Solicitors Council hearing with Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, and Sundar Pichai will focus on the assorted antitrust issues festival CEO's hair-comb is ambidextrous with. It's part of a yearlong look-over into the tech sector's anti-competitive behavior. The hearing will be conducted unwittingly to bedaub to coronavirus social distancing guidelines. Warble CEO Jack Dorsey is not general to testify despite a push numbskull last week from some Republicans on the committee.
The House Solicitors antitrust subcommittee is investigating unrelated described abuses by festival of the four companies: Google's inhabitance of its ad market, Facebook's acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram, Apple's App Teemingness policies, and Amazon's treatment of third-party sellers.
"Since last June, the Subcommittee has been investigating the dominance of a smallish pivotal of note platforms and the competence of existing antitrust laws and enforcement," House Solicitors Council Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline said in a statement Saturday. "Given the inside role these corporations spectacle in the lives of the American people, it is elucidative that their CEOs are forthcoming. As we have said from the start, their testimony is first-class for us to innate this investigation."
The council is general to kegger a full report on the look-over either retral this summer or first in the fall.
Wednesday's hearing will beck live here.
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