Big Tech CEOs set for key hearing in US Congress

After lawmakers collected hundreds of hours of interviews and obtained more than 1.3 million documents about Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, their chief executives will testify before Congress on Wednesday to defend their powerful businesses from the hammer of government.

The captains of the New Gilded Age — Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Sundar Pichai of Google — will appear together before Congress for the first time to justify their business practices.

Members of the House judiciary’s antitrust subcommittee have investigated the Internet giants for more than a year on accusations that they stifled rivals and harmed consumers.