"Either the CEOs are lying, or their companies are so unmanageable that nobody can truly know what they do." https://t.co/Ks3Wj6z13h

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) July 30, 2020

Washington Post openly criticises its owner Jeff Bezos.

In India, you never touch the owner of any outlet, anyone associated with the owner or any of his/her business/ political interests.

And then they mock Pulitzer Prize on prime time!https://t.co/V0zTrUaQ1u#FreePress

— Kunāl (@KunalMajumder) July 30, 2020

Pathetic. On this one occasion, kudos to Mark Zuckerberg!
Via @EvansRyan202 https://t.co/XzM4mYsoYu

— Peter R. Neumann (@PeterRNeumann) July 30, 2020

"Gaetz asked the entire panel whether any of them represented companies that do not embrace American values. None of the CEOs self-identified as anti-American. But the Republicans remained unconvinced." https://t.co/QW9ZC6OhMm

— Robin Givhan (@RobinGivhan) July 30, 2020

No, Google, we’re not really 'in control' of our data.

And yes, Amazon, you make up much more than just 4% of the market.

Let’s truth squad some of the #biglittlelies that tech companies tell to pretend they’re on our side:https://t.co/xYojggAHqp

— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) July 30, 2020

i think this is the best thing i’ve read on the hearings https://t.co/yRpC0iheST

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) July 30, 2020

One key takeaway on the Big Tech hearing was that it indicted the antitrust agencies.https://t.co/j7WpMViaj9 pic.twitter.com/OJm0RrLqg1

— David Dayen (@ddayen) July 30, 2020

If Congress doesn’t bring fairness to Big Tech, which they should have done years ago, I will do it myself with Executive Orders. In Washington, it has been ALL TALK and NO ACTION for years, and the people of our Country are sick and tired of it!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2020

this, for example, seems optimistic. https://t.co/5JiLvBfuWH

I appreciate the work it took to even get to a hearing, but It's not enough for a handful of senators to ask a few decent questions. It means nothing without substantive action.

— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) July 30, 2020

Big Tech competitors including @basecamp, @Sonos and @Yelp have pleaded with lawmakers to take action on what they see as anticompetitive practices.

They found themselves pleasantly surprised at the pointed questions lodged at the CEOs Wednesday. https://t.co/OZPhnWk4dc

— Lauren Feiner (@lauren_feiner) July 31, 2020

@HalSinger does a much better job than I do identifying key moments that might not seem like a bombshell admission when you’re just watching the video, but that enforcers may home in on: https://t.co/vHbyWFl5fM

— Brian Fung (@b_fung) July 31, 2020

The Economist says the Big Tech CEO hearing was a big waste of time. Because I can’t let things go, and in the spirit of the return of baseball and basketball to SportCenter’s Top 10 list, last night I made a Top 10 list of my own. https://t.co/4OBCPkJGYy

— Hal Singer (@HalSinger) July 31, 2020

Top 10 Admissions from Tech CEOs Secured at the Antitrust Hearing: @HalSinger @ProMarket_org https://t.co/etg1gJeqsZ

— Stigler Center (@StiglerCenter) July 31, 2020

Qs by ⁦@RepMGS⁩ showed “Amazon was prepared to lose $200 million in a predatory strategy to sink https://t.co/immp5sqSis, then its main competitor in the baby care area...

Amazon acquired https://t.co/immp5sqSis in 2011 & shut it down in 2017” https://t.co/AHqillrW3Z

— Alexis Goldstein (@alexisgoldstein) July 31, 2020

"When asked... why Facebook restricted API access to Pinterest but not to Netflix, Zuckerberg admitted that Pinterest was a social competitor to Facebook...such discriminatory refusals to deal are potentially illegal under the antitrust laws." @HalSinger https://t.co/ajR7T342P6

— Asher Schechter (@AsherSchechter) July 31, 2020

Top 10 Admissions from Tech CEOs Secured at the Antitrust Hearing https://t.co/Az72jhLmSt via @ProMarket_org #US #antitrust #tech #BigTech

— Matthew G. Rose (@MGRoseATRS) July 31, 2020

Commissioned animation for @nytimes article on Big Tech’s congressional antitrust hearing. https://t.co/esyUIfxSMt

— ari (@aricianoo) July 31, 2020

In today's On Tech:

The tech bosses and their shouty congressional critics seemed to agree on one thing:

4 digital stars influence many lives in profound ways.

The lingering question: Should any companies have this much influence -- good or bad?https://t.co/kG0eWtSeF7

— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) July 30, 2020

Wrote about yesterday's tech hearing, which felt like the beginnings of accountability. https://t.co/gcwhQYf6Zc

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) July 30, 2020

"But at certain moments on Wednesday, each of the four tech executives appeared to be taken off guard by the rigor and depth of the questions they faced." That's because the @congressfellows program is working!https://t.co/TVLJcvFe66

— Michael Brennan (@brennan_mike) July 30, 2020

good recap column by @kevinroose which underscores a feeling i had that yesterday is probably the end of an era of dc allowing itself to let tech execs completely steamroll them (though who knows if it'll have any results) https://t.co/jThj1VfbJ1

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) July 30, 2020

my goodness what a headline https://t.co/Su2AoxYCuJ pic.twitter.com/3h5q9KJD1M

— Internet Person™⭐️ (@TimHerrera) July 30, 2020

It’s clear that Congress needs to reexamine how it treats Silicon Valley to ensure #BigTech companies can no longer stifle competition and harm the next generation of American greatness. https://t.co/K0IGHuLiA7

— Congressman Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) July 31, 2020

Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and the Big Tech reckoning

by @RepKenBuckhttps://t.co/KiSKE65cdw #FoxBusiness

— ?? Mike Davis ?? (@mrddmia) July 31, 2020

This is a great point by @ddayen: The FTC and DOJ had all the same documents on Big Tech as the House antitrust subcommittee, yet have failed to do anything about them. https://t.co/34Ko9N1GeH

— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) July 31, 2020

This is the best piece that I have read on yesterday Big Tech hearings that it basically exposed both the DoJ and the FTC antitrust divisions. Well done on this, @ddayen! https://t.co/qqAa1VF5re

— Joe Ortiz (@LeoJTravis10) July 30, 2020

The Triumphant Return of Congress - At Wednesday’s Big Tech hearings, the House Antitrust Subcommittee showed what informed politicians and a real
investigation can do. https://t.co/V1m5fD43QN

— David Dayen (@ddayen) July 31, 2020

this, for example, seems optimistic. https://t.co/5JiLvBfuWH

I appreciate the work it took to even get to a hearing, but It's not enough for a handful of senators to ask a few decent questions. It means nothing without substantive action.

— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) July 30, 2020

"You might have thought that those days have passed, that Congress was too deprived of expertise, too bought by special interests, too callow in the face of might to summon up that level of fire again."

Inspiring writeup of the #BigTech hearing by @ddayenhttps://t.co/qiHQfdtyFM

— Hal Singer (@HalSinger) July 30, 2020

This is my roundup of yesterday's important #BigTechBarons hearing. We hear about Congressional dysfunction but Congress can function when it's committed; the real dysfunction is at the regulatory agencies. https://t.co/j7WpMViaj9

— David Dayen (@ddayen) July 30, 2020

Good story here by ⁦@Lauren_feiner⁩ - execs from tech companies who feel wronged by big tech like what they heard on Wednesday https://t.co/5KLIcVeqPo

— Alex Sherman (@sherman4949) July 31, 2020

As David Cicilline said at the end of the Big Tech hearing, quoting Louis Brandeis: “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”https://t.co/1Z9Dxt7wfQ

— The American Prospect (@TheProspect) July 31, 2020