Congress Holds Big Tech Antitrust Hearing
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We ran the numbers: There are 1292 news articles covering this topic. 46% (599) are left leaning, 33% (424) center, 21% (269) right leaning.
On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before Congress on the power of Big Tech. While left-leaning articles highlight that Democrats repeatedly confronted Zuckerberg with past emails, right-leaning articles highlight that Congress is too ignorant to regulate Big Tech.
The Washington Post published a left-leaning article highlighting that Democrats repeatedly confronted Zuckerberg with his past emails, as Representative Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) brought up a 2012 message where Zuckerberg said he sought to acquire Instagram out of fear that it could hurt Facebook. Each of the tech executives went to great lengths to stress their contributions to the U.S. economy.
NPR published a centrist article reporting that lawmakers, especially on the Democratic side, honed in on competition issues, specifically scrutinizing how these companies got so big and what they’re doing with that power. Meanwhile, Republicans used a lot of their time during questioning to accuse big platforms of being biased against conservatives.
A right-leaning article published by The Washington Examiner highlights that Congress is too ignorant to regulate Big Tech, citing that Democrats spent more time questioning Mark Zuckerberg about not policing users’ speech than asking Google about China. The article claims that Congress doesn’t know what platform it is talking about or how email filters work.