This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on our podcast, Big Tech and Small Business.

Washington turning up the heat on Silicon Valley, Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, all facing multiple investigations from the DOJ

to Congress to State Attorneys General.

Virginia Democrat, Senator Mark Warner, says politics in the Trump White House could be at play.

If the Justice Department reforms are going to be led by Justice Department of

professionals, that's wonderful.

I just feel that Mr Barr does not have much credibility left in frankly on both sides the aisle these days.

And as the U.S. takes tentative steps toward a reopened economy, the health of small businesses crushed by COVID-19 and social crisis.

Operation Hopes, John Hope Bryan.

Black folks have been doing so much,

with so little for so long, we can almost do anything with nothing.

It's Wednesday, June 24, 2020, Squawk Pod begins right now.

Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to Squawk Box here on C.

I'm Becky Quake, along with Joe Kerner and Andrew Ross Sorkin.

First up on today's podcast, Big Texts Tug of War with Washington, D.C.

last month Twitter broke years of precedent in a decision to fact check President Trump's tweets about voter fraud.

What ensued was a whirlwind from the Oval Office to Silicon Valley to the Department of Justice

and all the online platforms in between.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his decision to censor or flag content on the platform

and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Squackbox maintained his platform's right to moderate the content

posted there. In general, you know, we've tried to distinguish ourselves as probably

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