Congress is gearing up to grill Big Tech with a series of hearings starting next week

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Big Tech is about to get flambé again on Capitol Hill. The Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law of the Court House said on Thursday it plans to hold a series of hearings next week to “consider legislative proposals to address the rise and abuse of market power online and modernize antitrust laws. “. The first hearing, “Reviving Competition, Part 1: Proposals to Address Gatekeeper Power and Lower Barriers to Entry Online”, is scheduled for February 25. The hearings are designed to build on the committee’s 16-month investigation into online competition, with particular emphasis on the business practices of Google parent company Alphabet Inc. GOOGL,
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Facebook Inc. FB,
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and Apple Inc. AAPL,
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Earlier, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter Inc. TWTR,
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CEO Jack Dorsey will testify at a March 25 hearing about misinformation online.

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