REUTERS: Amazon.com Inc's chief executive, Jeff Bezos, escaped questioning for about an hour in a high-profile U.S. House of Representatives ...
REUTERS: Amazon.com Inc's chief executive, Jeff Bezos, escaped questioning for about an hour in a high-profile U.S. House of Representatives antitrust hearing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBFDQvIrWYM&feature=emb_logo on Wednesday in what may have been the result of a tech glitch.
Lawmakers, who held the hearing via videoconference, focused on asking the CEOs of Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc a barrage of questions on alleged abuses of market power.Bezos was questioned intensely later on in the hearing. Any issue with his video stream would not have been the only technical challenge affecting the antitrust grilling in Washington, however.
Poor audio quality, flat-screen televisions going off, chief executives appearing together as thumbnails on a large screen - led to observers on Twitter and frustrated viewers to mock the virtual set-up."Worst zoom quiz night ever," tweeted Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, sharing a screenshot of the executives shown in small side-by-side boxes.
It was not clear what happened with Amazon's virtual feed, according to a congressional aide with direct knowledge of the matter.The committee also took a 10-minute break to fix technical issues for those in the hearing room.
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