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House panel asks tech companies to share information in antitrust probe

House lawmakers investigating U.S. tech giants' growing market power asked Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc. to provide documents, including internal communications, about their business practices.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee on Sept. 13 sent letters to the CEOs of the four companies and asked them to provide information such as executive communications, financial statements, information about competitors, market share, mergers and key business decisions by Oct. 14. The information will help examine competition problems in digital markets and address anti-competition issues, the lawmakers said.

Fifty state attorneys general recently confirmed they are launching an investigation into potentially monopolistic behavior by Alphabet's Google LLC in the online advertising marketplace.

Facebook on July 24 entered into a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission for violating a 2012 order related to the company's user data practices, including a 2018 admission that the now-defunct data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica LLC improperly accessed millions of users' personal information.

Facebook is facing a separate FTC investigation regarding antitrust concerns, which the FTC opened in June and is also subject to a Department of Justice antitrust review of leading online platforms. The Department of Justice in July launched the probe into technology companies to determine whether they stifle competition or engage in other practices that harm consumers.