Facebook and Google under fire in rare Big Tech hearing
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook face US legislators over alleged abuse of market power
29 July 2020 - 22:31
Washington — Google and Facebook took the sharpest jabs for alleged abuse of their market power from Democrats and Republicans on Wednesday in a congressional hearing with four of America's most prominent tech CEOs in the hot seat.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Google's Sundar Pichai and Apple's Tim Cook — whose companies together represent about $5-trillion of market value — parried a range of accusations from legislators via videoconference before the House judiciary committee's antitrust panel...
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