United in their ire, US lawmakers lash out at big tech cos leaders

United in their ire, US lawmakers lash out at big tech cos leaders

For more than five hours, the 15 members of an antitrust panel in the House lobbed questions and repeatedly interrupted and talked over Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg

Current Affairs : The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, four tech goliaths worth almost $5 trillion joined, confronted shriveling inquiries from Republican and Democratic administrators the same on Wednesday for the strategies and market strength that had made their undertakings effective.

For over five hours, the 15 individuals from an antitrust board in the House hurled questions and more than once hindered and talked over Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Google.

It was the principal congressional hearing for quite a while where Democrats and Republicans went about as though they had a typical adversary, however for various reasons. Law based officials scrutinized the tech organizations for purchasing new companies to smother them and for unreasonably utilizing their information crowds to clone and slaughter off contenders, while Republicans addressed whether the stages had gagged traditionalist perspectives and were traitorous.

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