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Sen. Lee is now asking about anti-conservative bias. — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook also tells me the company is committing double-digit millions to an irrevocable trust that will fund the oversight board for multiple years: https://t.co/LD35Or4en9 — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook is rolling out the charter for its forthcoming oversight board today, saying it soon expects to name the first members of an organization designed to review Facebook’s decisions on content takedowns and appeals: https://t.co/LD35Or4en9 — PolitiTweet.org

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There are signs Delrahim is taking this really personally — he’s going so far as to say he’s owned two Priuses and a Tesla as evidence he isn’t out to get carmakers for being green. — PolitiTweet.org

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Whitehouse keeps saying it’s “bizarre” DOJ is investigating this when the fossil fuel industry is all over Capitol Hill with coordinated lobbying to defeat clean energy. Delrahim says he doesn’t have any evidence of a violation but that that’s the point of an investigation. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Whitehouse and Delrahim are in a *really* tense exchange, with Delrahim giving heated replies to claims that his automaker probe is politically motivated. — PolitiTweet.org

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Simons says they’re moving swiftly to address Big Tech. “That’s why we created the tech task force.” Sen. Blumenthal fires back: “You need more than a task force. You need action." — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Hawley is asking why Simons thinks the FTC deserves more resources when, in his view, the FTC isn’t doing its job. “What I see from your agency is frankly a culture of paralysis. I’m tempted to call it a culture of capitulation. I’m worried about agency capture." — PolitiTweet.org

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Leahy is asking Delrahim on @Fahrenthold and @OConnellPostbiz’s reporting on @JohnLegere’s stays at the Trump hotel in DC. Delrahim suggests the hotel is conveniently located to DOJ, but vows his decisions "were not based on the hotel stays of any merging party." — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Leahy again presses Delrahim on whether the White House has inappropriately gotten involved in antitrust enforcement. "I can unequivocally say no, senator,” Delrahim said. Leahy: “Nobody directly or indirectly?” “That’s correct.” “That’s your answer?” “That’s my answer." — PolitiTweet.org

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Delrahim says DOJ has “several dozen attorneys” working on its tech investigations. — PolitiTweet.org

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(It’s really remarkable the extent to which this family drama has sort of spilled out into public view.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked whether the FTC’s relationship with DOJ on a division of antitrust investigatory labor has “broken down,” FTC Chairman Joe Simons says “Yeah, I would agree with that.” DOJ’s Makan Delrahim says he can’t deny that at times his and Simons’ time has been “wasted." — PolitiTweet.org

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TL;DR None of this matters if judges don’t give a crap — PolitiTweet.org

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Klobuchar notes the ongoing investigations of Big Tech are happening “against the backdrop of a federal judiciary that is … increasingly skeptical of antitrust enforcement.” A signal she's not confident that even if regulators bring a case, that they can persuade the courts. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Klobuchar says she plans to ask about "concerns about reported White House attempts to interfere in antitrust enforcement efforts for political purposes." — PolitiTweet.org

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And Lee wants this hearing to go into allegations of anti-conservative bias by tech companies, a claim for which there’s no systemic evidence by credible researchers. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Mike Lee opens an oversight hearing of the FTC and DOJ by slamming the tensions between the two agencies’ antitrust regulators, saying disputes over which agency investigates which tech company creates “institutional pettiness” and delays. — PolitiTweet.org

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According to the release, the government isn’t going to try to stop the book from publishing but "seeks to recover all proceeds earned by Snowden because of his failure to submit his publication for pre-publication review." — PolitiTweet.org

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The US government is suing Edward Snowden for allegedly trying to publish a book in violation of his NDAs with the CIA and NSA: https://t.co/d0T0jEEF1J — PolitiTweet.org

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@KCoxDC How large are we talking? Like, Reese’s mug large? — PolitiTweet.org

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Today is an “every sentence I write looks like crap” kind of day. — PolitiTweet.org

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@robertcaruso I mean more of the tongue-in-cheek kind, like https://t.co/EEkpoopZsj — PolitiTweet.org

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Please tell me something like this already exists — PolitiTweet.org

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I would 💯 read a @joshuakeating “write about America like a foreign country” piece about US health care. — PolitiTweet.org

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This reads a lot like something you might write if your antitrust investigation into a certain auto emissions deal with California was getting a chilly public reception https://t.co/8WoFxuABYx — PolitiTweet.org

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@swin24 @lachlan The only correct answer is: a Juul luuge — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s a wonder humanity makes any technological progress at all — PolitiTweet.org

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@Anna_Rothschild @FiveThirtyEight Amazing! Congrats! — PolitiTweet.org

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Somebody took the titanium camping spork I keep at my desk for lunches and people, this is really not the day — PolitiTweet.org