House antitrust subcommittee demands Jeff Bezos testify

Published May 1, 2020 3:06pm ET



The House antitrust subcommittee announced Friday it is investigating Amazon for antitrust violations and demanded CEO Jeff Bezos testify at a hearing or face a subpoena.

“Amazon exploited its role as the largest online marketplace in the U.S. to appropriate the sensitive commercial data of individual marketplace sellers and then used that data to compete directly with those sellers,” lawmakers from both parties on the panel said in a letter to Bezos on Friday.

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