谷歌、Facebook、苹果、亚马逊CEO将首次一同出席针对科技巨头的反垄断听证会

为调查亚马逊、苹果、Facebook和谷歌是否有为了达成市场垄断而滥用市场支配地位的行为，四家公司的CEO被邀请作为证人出席将于本周三举行的听证会。这是亚马逊CEO杰夫·贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）、苹果CEO蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）、Facebook CEO马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）和谷歌母公司Alphabet的CEO桑达尔·皮查伊（Sundar Pichai）首次一同出席反垄断听证会，接受国会质询。这也是亚马逊CEO杰夫·贝佐斯首次在国会作证。

议员们将轮流向首席执行官们提问，这些问题将围绕公司高管如何布局其业务等方面，而首席执行官们将为自己的公司辩护，证明该公司并没有做反竞争行为。

立法者可能会针对Google在广告和搜索市场上的支配地位提问。苹果被指控在App Store中对自家应用给予特殊优待，正在接受调查。Facebook因最近几年收购了可能成为竞争对手的WhatsApp，Instagram和Giphy而受到关注。对亚马逊的调查将针对于：相比第三方卖家的商品，该公司是否优先推广了自己的品牌。

Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon are being investigated over antitrust violations. It means lawmakers are trying to figure out whether the companies have used anticompetitive business practices designed to stifle smaller competitors and to maintain a monopoly of the markets.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Apple CEO Tim Cook will all face questioning from Congress in a hearing Wednesday.

This hearing is the first time the four CEOs will testify at the same congressional hearing. And it's the first time Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world — with a net worth of $171.6 billion — will testify before Congress.


The lawmakers will take turns grilling the CEOs with their questions, many of which may overlap. The questions will probe the executives into laying out aspects of their business practices, and the CEOs in turn will attempt to make the case for why they aren't infringing on the competition.

Lawmakers will likely question Google in regard to its iron grip on the ad and search market. Apple is being investigated over claims that it gives its own apps special treatment over third parties in its App Store. Facebook is in the spotlight for the acquisitions it has made in recent years of would-be competitors, namely WhatsApp, Instagram, and Giphy. Amazon will be investigated over whether it promoted its own brands ahead of third-party sellers.  source

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