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Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook will likely emerge from the coronavirus pandemic even stronger, House Judiciary Antitrust subcommittee chair David Cicilline says while opening an unprecedented hearing featuring the CEOs of the four giants. SOUNDBITE
Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, arrives at a court in Washington, DC, where a landmark case pitting the US government against Google over the dominance of the company's world-dominating search engine begins. IMAGES
The United States is suing Google for its dominance of the online advertising market, announces Attorney General Merrick Garland from the US Justice Department in Washington, DC. "We allege that Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful conduct to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies," he tells a press conference. SOUNDBITE
Former president Donald Trump's refusal to immediately intervene to stop last year's assault on the US Capitol makes him "unfit for any office," the vice chair of the House panel investigating the attack says. "No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again," Representative Liz Cheney tells the final meeting of the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. "He is unfit for any office," she adds. SOUNDBITE
Brussels, Jan 19 (EFE), (Camera: EFE).- Large technology companies have gained unprecedented political and economic power which the European Union aims to regulate thanks to two laws, but digital companies invest millions in pressing to subvert the legislation to their favour.Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple spent more than 19 million euros on "lobbies" in 2019, according to data collected by EU Integrity Watch. SOUNDBITES OF MARGARIDA SILVA, RESEARCHER AT CORPORATE EUROPE OBSERVATORY ; AND VICTOR TEIXEIRA, EU POLITICAL INTEGRITY COORDINATOR AT TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL EU.
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