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Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google CEOs to Testify in Congress
- House committee probing industry says chiefs agreed to appear
- Lawmakers are investigating competition issues in tech market
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. in 2018.
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The chief executive officers of Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. have agreed to testify before a congressional panel investigating competition issues in the technology industry, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee overseeing the probe.
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook are likely to face a torrent of critical questions from lawmakers in a televised hearing about their companies’ business practices as the subcommittee seeks to build its case for tougher antitrust enforcement of tech companies.