The Tech Giants Are Dangerous, and Congress Knows It
The biggest platforms are a new kind of monopoly. At last, lawmakers have figured out why that’s a problem.
by Franklin Foer
Jul 29, 2020
3 minutes
When Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg testified on Capitol Hill two years ago, the hearings were an embarrassing exercise in congressional cluelessness. They furthered a cliché: The doddering American political elite, who sometimes seemed to confuse Messenger with the passenger pigeon, would never have the savvy to keep up with the dynamism of Big Tech, let alone regulate it.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust thoroughly debunked that strand of conventional wisdom today. Hauling the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and
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