Senate committee votes unanimously to subpoena CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation voted unanimously on Thursday to subpoena the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to testify.

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, said at a commerce committee meeting Thursday that he hoped the bipartisan votes to subpoena Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sounded an alarm for the tech sector.

“Big Tech, I believe, poses the single greatest threat to free speech in our country today, and poses the single greatest threat to democracy in our day,” Mr. Cruz said at the hearing. “Now the concerns about Big Tech on both sides of the aisle are somewhat different, but it should speak volumes that every member of this committee just voted to issue these subpoenas. Big Tech are the robber barons of the 21st century.”