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Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, March 6th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

We exclusively report that five Democratic senators have asked the Justice Department to investigate

whether Elon Musk is leveraging his influence in the Trump administration to bully advertisers

into returning to Musk's social media platform X.

The Wall Street Journal reported last month that X pressured interpublic group to spend more

on the platform.

In a letter dated Wednesday, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Corey Booker, Richard Blumenthal,

Adam Schiff, and Chris Van Hollen wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying that if Musk is

using his government position to harm those who do not

do business with him, he may be in violation of ethics and extortion rules. X didn't immediately

respond to a request for comment and didn't previously comment on the interpublic allegations.

There's a new GOP bill aimed at ending the debanking of cryptocurrency companies and

conservatives accounts. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, who's also the leader of the Senate

Banking Committee, introduced a bill today that would prohibit regulators from considering

so-called reputational risks when evaluating banks' business practices. Scott called the bill a first

step toward ending discrimination against clients. He says regulators worrying about customers

causing reputational damage to banks is fueling debanking, where banks allegedly avoid certain businesses.

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