New internal documents released by the US House Judiciary Committee have revealed how Amazon, Facebook and Google favoured their own products and abused their dominance to suppress competition from their rivals. These include internal Facebook documents, showing the company views itself as dominant in the social networking market and insulates itself from competitive threats. Other include Google internal communications demonstrating how it leverages its control over the Android mobile operating system to prevent smartphone manufacturers from introducing products or services that compete with Google's family of mobile apps. Internal Amazon documents demonstrate how Amazon's abuses its dominance over e-commerce to coerce third-party sellers to purchase other services from Amazon, such as fulfillment and distribution. The report came as the US lawmakers push to approve stronger antitrust legislation by the end of the year. 

The 450-page report details the findings and recommendations from a bipartisan investigation that included seven congressional hearings, the production of nearly 1.3 million internal documents and communications from the investigated firms and submissions from 38 antitrust experts.
 

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