Facebook Zuckerberg will testify in the US FTC this week in response to the antitrust investigation

As part of the company’s antitrust investigation, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was interrogated by Federal Trade Commission officials within two days of this week. < / P > < p > the FTC investigation into Facebook was disclosed to the public last summer. The agency is one of many law enforcement agencies investigating Facebook’s market monopoly and influence. These law enforcement agencies also include the U.S. Department of justice and state attorney general. “We are committed to cooperating with the FTC’s investigation and answering questions raised by the agency,” a Facebook spokesman said in a statement A FTC spokesman declined to comment. < / P > < p > earlier, Facebook’s acquisition of instagram and WhatsApp, as well as the replication of competitor’s application functions, have been subject to antitrust investigations. Now, Facebook is facing an antitrust investigation into whether it is abusing its online advertising market. Zuckerberg and the CEOs of three other tech giants attended a congressional hearing last month. At the meeting, Zuckerberg defended the matter, saying that many of Facebook’s products face a lot of competition. < / P > < p > the Federal Trade Commission was criticized earlier this month for failing to meet Zuckerberg in another privacy related investigation. “Sometimes it’s important to remove the CEO of a company, but sometimes it’s not necessary,” Joe Simons, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, told a Senate panel on August 5. But if it’s important and helpful, we’ll try our best to do it. ” Senator Richard Blumenthal believes that the credibility of the FTC investigation depends on its integrity and aggressiveness. The senator has criticized the agency for failing to remove Zuckerberg in the Cambridge analytical data protection case, which at the time resulted in a record $5 billion fine. Blumental added: “in my opinion, the public will be satisfied only if you actually remove some of the company’s top executives.”