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) go before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel Tuesday to discuss competition in online markets.
Democrats, in particular, are expected to press Facebook about a proposed $5 billion settlement between the company and the FTC to resolve allegations that the company violated a 2011 consent agreement by inappropriately sharing information on 87 million users with the now-defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
Other congressional panels Tuesday will focus on Facebook’s plans to bring out a cryptocurrency, the Libra, and allegations that Google is biased against conservatives in search results. Witnesses include Google’s Adam Cohen, director of economic policy; Nate Sutton, an associate general counsel at Amazon; Matt Perault, head of global policy development at Facebook and Apple’s Kyle Andeer, a vice president and chief compliance officer.
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