Facebook\u0027s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon\u0027s Jeff Bezos, Google\u0027s Sundar Pichai and Apple\u0027s Tim Cook set to speak before House Judiciary Committee\u0027s antitrust panel
“The hearing is less about substance and is designed to bring attention to Congressman Cicilline and the work the subcommittee has been doing for the past year,” said Jesse Blumenthal, who leads technology and innovation at Stand Together, a group that sides with tech companies that have come under fire from lawmakers and regulators in Washington.
The hearing will also test U.S. lawmakers’ ability to ask sharp, pointed questions that reflect an understanding of how Big Tech operates. Previous high-profile hearings involving tech companies have exposed the somewhat limited grasp of Washington politicians of how the internet and technology work.
It will also offer lawmakers from both parties a chance to bring up the topic of content censorship — an increasingly sore point for Republican lawmakers, who have repeatedly complained of anti-conservative bias at Big Tech companies. A detailed report with antitrust allegations against the four tech platforms and recommendations on how to tame their market power could be released by late summer or early fall by the committee, which has separately amassed 1.3 million documents from the companies, senior committee aides said.
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