U.S. Faces Bumpy Antitrust Road Despite Big Tech’s Emails, Memos

U.S. tech giants have enormous influence over what we buy, read, see and think. But is their market power illegal? At a July 29 House hearing, lawmakers leveled monopoly-abuse accusations at the leaders of Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. We sift through the charges, compile the evidence, summarize the CEOs’ defenses and ask the experts if the lawmakers made their case.

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The allegation: Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island, who chairs the House antitrust subcommittee, fired off the hearing’s first question to Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai: “Why does Google steal content from ...