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House committee chair calls for FTC antitrust investigation into Facebook

Facebook is already under regulatory scrutiny in the US, but it could be subject to much more pressure if one House representative has his way.

David Cicilline has written an editorial in the New York Times calling on the FTC to investigate Facebook for potential antitrust violations.

It bought promising startups like tbh only to shut them down later, and blocked Vine to prevent Twitter's video service from gaining ground.

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