Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google CEOs Invited to EU Hearing on Big Tech on February 1

EU officials have welcomed the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet to a February 1 hearing in Brussels as they attempt to get serious about the forces of US tech goliaths. 

The European Parliament will in the coming months give contribution to proposition by the European Commission to drive the organizations to play reasonably with rivals and to accomplish more to handle online phony news and destructive substance or face weighty fines. 

"The reason for the arranged hearing is to have a trade with the CEOs of the four worldwide driving stage organizations to find out about their present plans of action and future ideas as they face the difficulties of adjusting economic situations," said a greeting shipped off the organizations seen by Reuters. 

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"The occasion will add to setting up the individuals from the European Parliament for the forthcoming conversations on possible new guideline for the computerized area. For every one of these reasons, we wish to explain that this greeting is for the CEOs as it were."