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Article snippet: Executives for Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple will testify before Congress next week as part of the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust investigation into Silicon Valley. They will appear for a hearing July 16 that will examine the "impact of market power of online platforms on innovation and entrepreneurship," the panel's antitrust subcommittee announced Tuesday. The hearing comes as the tech giants have been put on the defensive by regulators around the world concerned over their market power and collection of personal data. The subcommittee will hear from two panels of witnesses. One will feature Adam Cohen, Google's economic policy director; Nate Sutton, Amazon's associate general counsel; Matt Perault, the head of global policy development at Facebook; and Kyle Andeer, Apple's chief compliance officer. The other panel will be comprised of experts and some of Big Tech's biggest critics. Maureen Ohlhausen, a Republican who recently served as acting chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, will testify, along with Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University who has advocated for the government to be more forceful in enforcing antitrust law against Silicon Valley's titans. It will be the second hearing the panel has held since launching the investigation in June. The first, in June, examined the effect Silicon Valley has had on the news industry by swallowing up the majority of online advertising revenue. Rep. MORE (D-R.I.), who chairs the antitrust su... Link to the full article to read more