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The bosses of four of America's largest tech firms are testifying remotely to Congress. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Alphabet's Sundar Pichai and Apple's Tim Cook are all taking part. They face questions from the House Judiciary Committee on whether their firms have become too dominant.

Turkish MPs have imposed new rules on how social media firms can operate in the country. The likes of Twitter and Facebook must ensure they have local representatives in Turkey, and comply with court orders to remove content deemed offensive. Ece Goksedef of the 大象传媒's Turkish service tells us what's behind the latest move, and Istanbul-based lawyer and free speech campaigner Veysel Ok says he's worried freedom of expression is being eroded in his country.

Also in the programme, German MPs are hearing from two senior government ministers about what they knew and when about links between collapsed payments firm Wirecard and the country's government. Whilst the hearing itself is in private, Olaf Storbeck of the Financial Times in Frankfurt explains the background.

Plus, music streaming service Spotify has reported a rise in subscribers as more people listened to music during the pandemic, but a fall in advertising revenue, leading to an overall loss for the second quarter of the year. Music business journalist Eamonn Forde brings us the details.