From Bezos Eating a Snack, Room Ratings and ‘The Net’: Moments That Highlighted Big Tech Hearing

Social media users jumped on the fact that Amazon’s Bezos received no questions for more than an hour in his first appearance before Congress. At one point, the world’s richest man appeared to reach off-screen for a snack, to the internet’s delight. “someone calculate how much money he made during this nom,” tweeted @Bryson_M. Others did back-of-the-napkin calculations to figure out an answer. It was not immediately clear if there were technical problems with Amazon’s feed.

“THE NET”

U.S. Representative James Sensenbrenner’s use of the phrase “the net” was mocked online for being outdated, with watchers posting about the 1995 film of the same name starring Sandra Bullock and sharing GIFs of retro computer icons and dial-up internet. The Wisconsin Republican also grilled Facebook’s CEO on Twitter Inc’s decision to temporarily restrict Donald Trump Jr. from tweeting after he violated its coronavirus misinformation rules.

“I think what you might be referring to happened on Twitter, so it’s hard for me to speak to that,” said Zuckerberg. Republican representative Greg Steube was also roasted online for asking Google’s CEO why his campaign emails were going to spam folders in Gmail.