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Lees meerTop US tech bosses are told they are censoring political speech, spreading fake news and ‘killing’ the engines of the US economy in a combative and historic congressional hearing.Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook a…
Lees meerThe chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook endured an uncomfortable day before CongressCongressional hearings are an accustomed ritual, a set piece in the institutional grand opera of American politics. On this side the congresspeopl…
Lees meerThe four-hour hearing on Capitol Hill offered a stunning illustration of the extent of misdeeds by Big Tech“Our founders would not bow before a king, we should not bow before the emperors of the online economy.” That’s how Congressman David Cicillin…
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