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Apple CEO Tim Cook has rejected the allegation that Apple is "a monopoly" that should be broken up along with other US tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook.
In an interview to CBS News, Cook said that though Apple was big in size and government scrutiny was "fair," he would not agree with the argument that his company was a monopoly, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, 4 June.
The Apple CEO agreed that the government scrutiny of big tech companies was fair. "We should be scrutinised."
Over the past few days, media reports said the US authorities are mulling an antitrust probe into big tech companies for a wide range of issues, such as fake news, the policy of user privacy, their monopolised shares on advertising market and foreign influence in US political affairs via social media platforms.
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