Beginning 12 p.m. ET: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the House Antitrust Subcommittee.
Witnesses Jeff Bezos, Chief Executive Officer, Amazon.com, Inc.; Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer, Apple Inc.; Sundar Pichai
Chief Executive Officer, Alphabet Inc.; and Mr. Mark Zuckerberg
Chief Executive Officer, Facebook, Inc. testified on Wednesday July 29, 2020 regarding online platforms and market power.
Google staff discussed the “proliferating threat” of competing websites like vertical search engines, House Antitrust Subcommittee Chair David Cicilline said based on the panel’s investigation.
Follow along with live updates from the Big Tech hearing: https://t.co/MEVqdZ22cR
— CNBC (@CNBC) July 29, 2020
Q: Does Apple not treat all app developers equally?
Apple CEO Tim Cook: “We treat every developer the same. We have open and transparent rules, it’s a rigorous process…those rules apply evenly to everyone.” https://t.co/rk4UYi4NpV pic.twitter.com/pCEizi9Nv9
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) July 29, 2020
“If someone is going to go out and say that Hydroxychloroquine is proven to cure COVID-19…that statement could lead people to take a drug that in some cases…[that] might be harmful to people," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies. "We think we should take that down.” pic.twitter.com/TxgyDRTpsN
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) July 29, 2020
Rep. Nadler tells Zuckerberg that Facebook's purchase of Instagram was "exactly the type of anti-competitive acquisition that the antitrust laws were designed to prevent"
"It should never have been permitted to happen, and it should never happen again" https://t.co/83sKht0bRx pic.twitter.com/GmlbMAsWTN
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 29, 2020
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Pressed on Facebook's threshold for taking content down, Mark Zuckerberg defends the platform's community standards: "They ban categories of harm… like hate speech that could lead to dehumanizing people and encouraging violence down the road." https://t.co/0iIWQyZ5y8 pic.twitter.com/bCHXrGGvjs
— ABC News (@ABC) July 29, 2020
“App Store developers set prices for their apps and never pay for shelf space,” Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies to the House Judiciary. “The App Store guidelines ensure a high quality, reliable and secure user experience. They are transparent and applied equally to every developer.” pic.twitter.com/pSSYYSzOkb
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) July 29, 2020