House Starts Its Tech Antitrust Probe With a Focus on Free Press
- Newspapers, consumers, tech companies to testify at hearing
- Cicilline pushes bill to help newspapers negotiate with Google
The Google Inc. logo sits illuminated on the company's exhibition stand at the Noah Technology Conference in Berlin on June 6, 2018.
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A congressional panel conducting a broad antitrust investigation into the nation’s biggest technology companies is starting with scrutiny over how companies like Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. have devastated the news industry.
The first hearing Tuesday afternoon of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, led by Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline, is set to explore the market power online platforms have over the news publishers, including their role in digital advertising, data collection and privacy.