Zuckerberg, Pichai, Dorsey to face Congress again

The chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter are set to testify in Washington next month as Congress gears up for a new round of scrutiny of giant technology companies.

Two House committees on Thursday announced plans to examine the power of the tech platforms.

The three executives will testify in March, while a House antitrust panel announced hearings to consider legislation that could curb the companies’ dominance.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will appear virtually at a March 25 hearing before a House Energy and Commerce joint subcommittee hearing on online misinformation and disinformation.

The hearings by the House antitrust panel, which are slated to start next week, stem from a 16month investigation of the tech industry that determined companies such as Google and Amazon.com Inc. are using their power to thwart competition in digital markets.

“For too long, the dominance of a handful of gatekeepers online has wreaked havoc on competition, suppressed innovation and weakened entrepreneurship,” Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island, who leads the panel, said in a statement.

“I pledged to undertake a series of legislative reforms to restore competition online and to strengthen the antitrust laws. I look forward to working on a bipartisan basis to do just that.”

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