Congress is about to grill the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

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For over a year, top lawmakers in Congress have been investigating Amazon , Apple , Facebook and Google . The investigation's purpose? To determine whether the companies have abused their power and dominance in the online marketplace.

Now, the CEOs of those companies are set to testify before lawmakers on Wednesday in the biggest hearing of its kind since Microsoft's Bill Gates went to Washington in 1998. While most of the executives have appeared before Congress previously, they've never faced a situation quite like this one. All four will testify alongside one another — and in a pandemic-driven twist, they will all attend the hearing virtually, using Cisco's WebEx conferencing platform.

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