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David Cicilline: “You can understand why this would be of concern to the public, that we would have traded away the right to question the…”

On the recordNovember 12, 2019
You can understand why this would be of concern to the public, that we would have traded away the right to question the decisionmaker at Facebook in a piece of litigation that you are trying to determine if they violated a consent decree.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Cicilline expresses concern over the FTC's decision to not depose Facebook executives during an investigation.

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