WASHINGTON—Federal Trade commissioners will appear at a House hearing Wednesday as they complete a settlement with Facebook Inc. over privacy violations, in a session likely to see sparring between Democrats and Republicans over who is better positioned to police Big Tech. The Federal Trade Commission—made up of three Republican and two Democratic members—is poised to levy a fine of as much as $5 billion on the Silicon Valley giant in what would be its biggest such penalty ever.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 07, 2019 23:48 UTC