WASHINGTON (AP) – The latest in testimonial before a congressional committee through the CEOs of Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google (always local):
5:20 p.m.
U.S. lawmakers have smashed the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook by comparing them to copycats, liars, bullies, drug dealers, and traitors in an attempt to find that it’s time to take strong action against their technological powers.
The barrage of unflattering comparisons and allegations of misconduct lasted an ordinary hearing wednesday that convened Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg before a congressional committee. The committee examines allegations that corporations have abused the popularity of their products and facilities to quell the festival and innovation.
The 4 CEOs gave the impression through the video due to the pandemic.
Lawmakers have been especially tough on Google, whose dominant search engine serves as the main gateway to the Internet, and Facebook, whose social network of more than 2 billion people has struggled to block efforts to spread fake data in an attempt to influence elections and sow social problems. Pichai and Zuckerberg disorders insisted that their corporations had worked hard to resolve their facility’s disorders and headed to their facilities, most commonly free of charge, so that their users could continue to sell the classified ads that generate the maximum of their revenue.
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4:45 p.m.
A key Housemaker investigating Big Tech’s strength is Amazon.
Democratic Rep. David Cicilline told Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a hearing Wednesday that evidence shows that the e-commerce giant is interested in market dominance and is “fundamentally anti-competitive.”
Cicillin said “Congress will have to act.”
As chair of a House judiciary panel, Cicilline is contemplating a new law imaginable to update centuries-old antitrust laws. But Republican James Sensenbrenner rejects the concept that the law is necessary, and it seems it may be a complicated bill for Democrats in Congress.
The Bezos, along with the CEOs of Apple, Facebook and Google answered questions from lawmakers about their company’s practices when a Panel of the House closed their one-year investigation into market dominance in the generation industry.
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3:50 p.m.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he can’t guarantee that the company may not access the seller’s knowledge to make competitive products, a claim the company and its executives had denied in the past.
His comments came here Wednesday at a congressional hearing on the market dominance of 4 tech giants: Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple.
Regulators in the U.S. And Europe is reviewing Amazon’s relationships with corporations that sell on its site and checking whether the online shopping giant has knowledge of the distributor to create its own personally branded products.
“We have a policy opposed to the vendor’s specific knowledge to help our personal label business,” Bezos said, in response to a consultation from Representative Pramila Jayapal, Amazon State Democrat in Washington. “But I can’t say I can’t say for sure that this policy hasn’t been violated.”
An April Article in the Wall Street Journal quoted Amazon workers who said they had knowledge of the seller to make competing products, and added a car trunk organizer that Amazon copied.
Bezos said he was aware of the article and was still reviewing the allegations.
“I’m still not convinced they’ve taken it behind him,” he said.
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3:30 p.m.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is back on the defensive at a Congressional hearing on the role of the social network as a vehicle for Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
And Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, raised the factor in fearing that right-wing teams would use Facebook to infiltrate the Black Lives Matter movement and spread anti-Semitic propaganda.
Zuckerberg says Facebook uses a complicated generation to intercept hate speech, before it is visual on the platform. “It’s hurting our business,” he says.
Zuckerberg’s comments came here at the hearing, which featured Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. CEOs respond to the practices of their companies when a panel of the Company concludes its one-year research on market dominance in the industry.
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2:45 p.m.
Facebook’s internal documents are being deployed in opposition to CEO Mark Zuckerberg through lawmakers who claim the company has swallowed its rivals to quell competition.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Democrat who heads the House Judiciary Committee, told Zuckerberg at a hearing Wednesday that documents received from the company “tell a very disturbing story” about Facebook’s acquisition of the Instagram messaging service.
He said the documents show that Zuckerberg called Instagram a risk that could “seriously harm” Facebook.
Zuckerberg responded that Facebook viewed Instagram as both a competitor and a “complement” to Facebook’s services, but also acknowledged that it competed with Facebook on photo-sharing. Some critics of Facebook have called for the company to divest Instagram and its WhatsAPP messaging service.
The questioning came at a congressional hearing that also featured Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
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2:30 p.m.
The chairman of a Congressional committee investigating the strength of giant-generation corporations has accused Google of exploiting its dominant search engine to use concepts and data borrowed from other Internet sites and manipulate their effects to bring others into their own virtual in order to build their profits.
Rep. David Cicilline gunned down Google CEO Sundar Pichai with allegations of abusive habit while questioning him Wednesday at a hearing that also placed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in virtual seats while answering questions from a video.
Pichai has continually hijacked Cicillin’s attacks by claiming that Google is seeking to provide maximum useful and applicable information to the loads of millions of other people who use its search engine every day. He said it’s part of his efforts to get them back rather than resorting to a rival service, like Microsoft’s Bing.
Pichai had trouble answering a question about whether Google threatened to sell Yelp from its search engine database after the restaurant review site told Google to avoid searching for content on its site. Yelp raised this factor a decade ago before Pichai became CEO in 2015.
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