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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congress plans to carry a listening to on Ticketmaster, prompted by issues with Taylor Swift ticket gross sales this week and long-running points like hidden charges, a key senator mentioned on Friday.
Senator Amy Klobuchar, chair of the Senate antitrust panel, didn’t give a date for the listening to however mentioned it will be this yr.
Ticketmaster has been sharply criticized for mishandling ticket gross sales for Swift’s 2023 tour, her first in 5 years. Within the “presale” spherical on Tuesday, many followers confronted web site outages and lengthy wait instances as over 2 million tickets had been offered.
