Bezos’ snack, room ratings and ‘the net’: Key online moments from tech hearing

Two years after Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s explanation to U.S. lawmakers – “Senator, we run ads” – exploded as a meme, online viewers again ridiculed moments of a tech antitrust showdown on Wednesday.

The chief executives of the country’s largest tech companies – including Zuckerberg, Amazon Inc’s Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Alphabet Inc’s Google and Apple Inc’s Tim Cook – gave virtual testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel.

BEZOS EATS A SNACK

Social media users jumped on the fact that Amazon’s Bezos received no questions for more than an hour in his first appearance before Congress. At one point, the world’s richest man appeared to reach off-screen for a snack, to the internet’s delight.