Week 19: Internet Billionaires Prepare For Their Public Shaming

jshafer@politico.com (Jack Shafer), Politico
Sat, 09/30/2017 - 8:40am

Internet giants Google, Facebook, and Twitter—worth more than a trillion dollars combined—have now joined the ever-expanding cast of the Trump Tower scandal. Portrayed in the press as the witless enablers to the Russian meddlers of Campaign 2016, the tech firms have been invited to take their public beatings before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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