House lawmakers are set to grill the top executives at Facebook, Google and Twitter at a high-profile congressional hearing next month, as Democrats and Republicans take fresh aim at the tech giants for failing to crack down on dangerous political falsehoods and disinformation about the coronavirus. The hearing comes as a second panel of House lawmakers announced it plans to embark on a new, bipartisan push to toughen the country’s antitrust laws, hoping to crack down on the sort of anticompetitive, monopoly-style tactics they’ve identified at Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google last year.
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