On July 29th, the long-awaited Big Tech antitrust hearing from the House Judiciarys antitrust subcommittee was held. For several hours, four of the biggest figures in tech Apples Tim Cook, Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, and Googles Sundar Pichai were grilled by lawmakers.

This week on The Vergecast, The Verges Nilay Patel, Makena Kelly, Adi Robertson, and Casey Newson dedicated an entire episode to the important moments from the six-hour hearing, the notable emails and internal documents made available from the investigation, and how effective the panel was in laying out a case for regulating big tech companies in the US.

The day after the hearing, all of those companies released their quarterly earnings. The Vergecast crew also discusses the difference in messaging from the companies resistance to claims of being a monopoly and to the profits they made during a pandemic and recession.

You can listen to all of that here or in your preferred podcast player.

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