and doney, so much to focus on. what it's the biggest focus here?day's hearing well beyond mergers, acquisitions and questions of antitrust. particularly facebook and google have so much control with algorithms with what americans see when it comes to political news and advertising. we can expect to see a lot of questions around that obviously in an election year. i expect some democrats will ask facebook particularly why they are not taking a stronger stand on trump calling out his misinformation, and expect republicans to ask particularly in light of donald trump jr. being briefly suspended yesterday from twitter. you know, questions of anti-conservative bias, and one other thing that is interesting in all of this is that based on their opens statements, which we've seen. these companies are really leaning into the idea of being proud american companies, particularly facebook, which is interesting when you think of it in the context of the discussion about tik tok, the chinese-owned video app which the government is now looking at potentially bann

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