Facebook, Google and Amazon CEOs signal willingness to testify — only jointly
The chair of the House’s antitrust panel is working to get executives of four of the country’s most powerful tech companies to testify about competition. And all companies appear to be provisionally on board, according to two sources familiar with the matter — except Apple. And in an email to the committee reviewed by POLITICO, a lawyer for the company emphasized that it has made the Hill no promises about testimony from its CEO.
A lawyer representing Amazon told Judiciary leaders Sunday in a letter obtained by POLITICO that the company is “committed to cooperating” with their antitrust probe including by “making Jeff Bezos available to testify at a hearing with the other CEOs this summer.”could provide all the CEOs with a way to back out of testifying, by making their appearances contingent on the other companies also sending their top executives.
Rep. David Cicilline , chair of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, told POLITICO in May that Bezos was “the only CEO who has expressed reservation about appearing” before the committee, though a representative. The lawmaker said at the time he was encouraged by his direct talks with Apple’s Cook, Google’s Pichai and Facebook’s Zuckerberg, and that he expected all three to appear voluntarily.
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