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Big Tech will be under the spotlight once again on Wednesday, as the CEOs of the largest companies in the industry will face a grilling before Congress. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google parent company Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple chief Tim Cook are scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will defend his company’s ownership of Instagram and WhatsApp to congressional lawmakers Wednesday amid calls to break up the powerful platforms. In prepared testimony to the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, Zuckerberg says Facebook has used its infrastructure to improve Instagram and WhatsApp in ways that benefitted users. “These benefits came …

Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg plans to defend the company in a hearing before the House antitrust subcommittee by arguing that hampering American technological innovation only aids China, a new report says. Congressional investigators have reviewed thousands of internal Facebook documents to piece together the company’s motivation for acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp and to …

Google will keep its employees working from home for at least another full year. Staff at the search giant — who were first sent home in March due to the coronavirus pandemic — are not expected to return in a large capacity until at least July 2021, according to the Wall Street Journal. The decision …

That’s some pay raise. Tesla CEO Elon Musk added a whopping $5 billion to his net worth on Monday thanks to Tesla’s never-ending stock rally, allowing him to finish the day as the fifth-richest person in the world with a net worth of $74.2 billion. Musk, who as recently as a few weeks ago was …

The Zuck’s been zinc-ed. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg was spotted zipping around Hawaii’s blue waters on a $12,000 eFoil remote-controlled surfboard Sunday wearing a thick face mask of white sunscreen. The billionaire donned a blue hoodie to ride the waves with surfing pro Kai Lenny and a cadre of security guards in tow. The Facebook …

What a Joker. New photos show Facebook honcho Mark Zuckerberg zipping around on an electric surfboard in Hawaii — while wearing enough white sunscreen on his face to make the Batman super villain blush. The 36-year-old billionaire — who was recently accused of colonizing the island of Kauai — was caught in the geeky moment …

The president and CEO of the NAACP is ready for a long-haul battle with Facebook. In an interview with The Post, Derrick Johnson said he and other civil rights organizers will keep up the heat on the social network until it makes concrete changes to help curb misinformation and hate speech on its platform. Johnson, …

Mark Zuckerberg has bent Facebook’s guiding principles in order to keep Donald Trump’s posts on the site, according to documents and interviews obtained by a newspaper. The Facebook CEO is confronting a company in crisis, as employees publicly protest against his failure to challenge Trump and advertisers boycott the firm in response. On Sunday Starbucks …

The boss of Ben & Jerry’s says the ice cream slinger is considering joining a growing Facebook ads boycott, but thinks it doesn’t go far enough. Facebook’s failure to police hate speech and misinformation “is not fully right with our values, period,” Chief Executive Matthew McCarthy said, adding that the revenue generated by the social …