The Big Tech Hearing

<p>The C.E.O.s of America’s most influential technology companies — Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook — were brought before Congress to answer a question: Are they too powerful?</p><p>Today, we talk to our colleague who was in the room about what happened. Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/cecilia-kang" target="_blank">Cecilia Kang</a>, a technology and regulatory policy reporter for The New York Times.</p><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily" target="_blank">nytimes.com/thedaily </a></p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>In the hearing, the chiefs of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/technology/big-tech-hearing-apple-amazon-facebook-google.html" target="_blank"> faced withering questions</a> from Democrats about anti-competitive practices and from Republicans about anti-conservative bias.</li></ul>