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Jeff Bezos is being called to testify before Congress over ‘misleading’ statements from Amazon

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The House Judiciary Committee called on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Friday to testify before the body after Democratic leader accused company officials of allegedly lying before Congress last week.

In a letter addressed to Bezos, seven bipartisan members of the committee said that recent reporting from The Wall Street Journal about Amazon’s data tactics for creating private label products calls into question previous statements company officials have made. Last week, the Journal reported that Amazon employees accessed third-party seller data to launch competing products under the company’s own private label brands.

“If the reporting in the Wall Street Journal article is accurate, then statements Amazon made to the Committee about the...

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