Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Friday, September 6th.

I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

UK antitrust officials say Google might be stifling competition

by favoring its own ad tech services.

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority said a preliminary investigation

found that most publishers and advertisers use Google's ad tech services, which led publishers

and advertisers bid for and sell ad space.

Officials are concerned Google is In a statement Google's vice president of global ads said the company disagreed with UK officials and that the core of the case rests on flawed interpretations of the ad tech sector.

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durav has denied that the messaging app refused to cooperate

with European authorities to counter illegal content.

French authorities charged Durav with crimes including complicity and spreading illicit content on telegram.

In a post on the app, Durav acknowledged the sharp increase in telegram users had made it easier for criminals to abuse the platform, but he said it removed

millions of harmful posts and channels every day.

These were his first public comments since he was arrested by French authorities at the end of August.

And we're exclusively reporting that J.P. Morgan Chase is investigating thousands of incidents

of possible check fraud committed as part of a Tik-Tok craze.

The bank plans to share the evidence it gathers with police departments around the country.

Videos on Tik-Tok showed a so-called glitch that allowed chase customers to deposit big checks and withdraw funds

from ATMs immediately, even if there weren't sufficient funds available.

Normally, the bank allows customers to withdraw a portion of deposited checks before they're cleared.

But a technical issue last week allowed customers to withdraw the full amount of a check

before it had cleared.

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