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Last September, the CEOs of four of the biggest tech companies in the U.S. faced the House Antitrust Subcommittee.
At that meeting, the CEOs of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Facebook (the only one missing was Microsoft s Satya Nadella) were grilled on a wide range of subjects under the broad umbrella of an anti-trust probe.
Then in October, the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter all faced lawmakers again, this time to defend the legal liability shield that underpins their business models. At the end of February 2021, the judiciary committee s antitrust subcommittee met again to hear testimony from companies and other parties that claim they have been mistreated by the tech giants. And later this month, the bosses of Twitter, Google and Facebook will appear again in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is looking at the way misinformation is posted and spread by their platforms.