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Nation’s Most Powerful Tech CEOs to Testify in Congressional Anti-Trust Hearing

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KQED

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.2727 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The chief executives of Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon are scheduled to testify on Wednesday before a House subcommittee investigating anti-trust violations. The hearings are part of a year-long probe into whether the nation’s biggest tech companies have used unfair practices to stifle competition and create monopolies. It is the first time that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will testify before congress, joining Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebooks’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai. We’ll preview the hearing and discuss the growing, bi-partian concerns about the growth and practices of major tech companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. The chief executives of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon will face

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questions from members of a House Judiciary Subcommittee tomorrow about whether they've become

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too big, too powerful, and have engaged in anti-competitive practices. The hearing marks the first

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time that Amazon's Jeff Bezos will testify before Congress, joining Apple's Tim Cook, Facebook's

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Mark Zuckerberg, and Google Sundar Pichai. We look at whether the hearing could lead to tighter

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controls on the world's most powerful tech companies. Joining us is Rachel Myro, senior editor

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for KQED's Silicon Valley Newsdesk. Good morning, Rachel. Good morning. And also with us is David

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