A historic antitrust hearing kicked off early Wednesday afternoon, with the CEOs of Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google parent Alphabet appearing before a House Judiciary subcommittee to defend the business practices of their companies.
The hearing, held virtually amid the coronavirus outbreak, is the culmination of a 13-month investigation by a House antitrust subcommittee into Big Tech’s dominance. The four CEOs — Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook and Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai — are speaking before Congress for the first time as a group, and Bezos is attending his first ever public hearing. A report from the committee, which will synthesize the results of six…
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