Irish Examiner View: Powerful must be accountable

Tech giants testify to Congress

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The four Big Tech leaders answered questions  before Congress at a hearing by the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust. Picture: PA

For the first time, the heads of US tech giants are being required to justify their activities before the United States Congress.

In a rare political spectacle, politicians yesterday began questioning the leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google about how they wield commercial power.