The most powerful lawyer in the US is open to investigating the Silicon Valley giants

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• Attorney General Jeff Sessions is exploring the possibility of an investigation into US tech giants, Bloomberg reported.
• Sessions will be briefed on September 25 by Republican state attorneys general.
• Bloomberg reports that Sessions has not yet made his mind up about how to proceed, but that one of the attending attorneys general wants to break up the big tech companies.

There's a little more insight into US Attorney General Jeff Sessions' cryptic announcement that he planned to discuss whether Silicon Valley firms were stifling free speech and competition.

According to Bloomberg, Sessions is, as widely speculated, open to the possibility of an investigation into companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

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