U.S. lawmakers, both Republican and Democrat, have criticisms of Big Tech, but their differences suggest any resulting legislation isn’t imminent
WASHINGTON—This week’s hearing into Big Tech’s market power underscored the deep discontent in Congress toward giant technology companies, but also divisions about what the problems are and how to address them.
In more than five hours of adversarial interrogation before the House Antitrust Subcommittee on Wednesday, the chief executives of Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook, Inc. and Google owner Alphabet Inc. were accused of a range of unfair business practices.
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