The House Judiciary Committee today demanded that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testify on whether the company misled Congress about the data tactics it deploys against rivals, setting up a major potential fight with the company.
The committee’s Democratic leaders said last week that the company might have given lawmakers false information last year about whether it uses data collected from its own third-party sellers to launch competing products. The Wall Street Journal reported in April that Amazon employees have employed such tactics, despite the company's denials.
“If the reporting in the Wall Street Journal article is accurate, then statements Amazon made to the Committee about the company’s business practices appear to be misleading, and possibly criminally false or perjurious,” committee leaders wrote in a letter today to Bezos.
“In light of our ongoing investigation, recent public reporting, and Amazon’s prior testimony before the Committee, we expect you, as Chief Executive Officer of Amazon, to testify before the Committee,” committee leaders added.
The move marks the first time House Judiciary has publicly called for the CEO of one of the tech giants to testify before the committee, the greatest escalation to date in its antitrust probe of Silicon Valley. The letter has the backing of both Democratic and Republican House Judiciary members.
An Amazon executive testified to the committee last year that the company does not "use individual seller data to directly compete with them.” Amazon disputed the accuracy of the Journal report, but said it would launch an investigation into the newspaper's findings.
A slew of antitrust hawks, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), have since accused Amazon of lying to Congress and called for federal and congressional probes into the matter. A group of small business groups and advocacy groups urged committee leaders earlier this week to compel Bezos to testify.
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