Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook CEOs to appear at antitrust hearing on July 27
The technology giant leaders will appear before the house’s anti-trust subcommittee later this month.
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The CEOs of the US technology giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon are expected to appear at an antitrust hearing on July 27. The news came from Rep. David Cicilline, as reported by Recode, and confirmed on July 6 by the House Justice Committee, Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet Sundar Pichai and Jeff Bezos from Amazon will testify everyone.
The news follows Cicilline, who said in May that he would summon Bezos to appear at the antitrust hearing after sending an open letter to Bezos asking for his testimony. Bezos agreed to appear in June.
“The only CEO who raised concerns about being represented by a representative was Amazon,” said Cicilline, chair of the anti-trust, commercial, and administrative subcommittee of the House Justice, in May. “Nobody in this country is above the law … no one is answering a summons to Congress.”
Cicilline also said the committee’s report should be released in March or April, but has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. During a January hearing of the committee, smaller technology companies complained about unfair business practices by technology giants.
Apple, Amazon and Cicilline did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Facebook and Google did not comment, but forwarded questions to the committee.
The separate ones are still running Antitrust investigation into Google by attorneys general and the Department of Justice.
