The Federal Trade Commission will hold a series of public hearings beginning later this year as part of a sweeping evaluation of the agency’s enforcement approach, self-examination that comes amid mounting scrutiny of whether regulators have done too little to limit the power of tech companies.

FTC chairman Joseph Simons, a former antitrust partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, told reporters that the FTC will hold public hearings to examine whether the agency keeps pace with changes in the U.S. economy, including the rise in market power of tech giants such as Google and Facebook.

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