Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has accused Big Tech companies of “impersonating Republicans” so they can get away with the new competition laws.
The founder of the video game giant, who sued Apple for anti-competitive practices in 2020, believes that some tech firms are choosing which party to support in order to strengthen their market dominance and suggested that they are trying to “denigrate the competition”. law”.
Sweeney wrote on X: “After years of pretending to be Democrats, big tech executives are now pretending to be Republicans in hopes of currying favor with the new administration. Beware of the nasty monopoly campaign of defaming competition law that will rip off consumers and destroy competitors (sic)”.
His comments came after US President-elect Donald Trump recruited Tesla and X owner Elon Musk as co-head of his administration’s Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, while Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s are one of them. campaign by donating $1 million to the politician’s inaugural fund.
Alarm bells were recently sounded after Zuckerberg announced plans to ditch independent fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, saying the current approach was “too politically biased.”
In a statement, the billionaire businessman said: “We’re going to get rid of fact-checking and replace it with X-like community notes, starting with the US…
“Fact checkers have simply been too politically engaged and have destroyed more trust than they have created, especially in the US.
“We’re going to gradually roll out a more comprehensive community notes system over the next few months.”
Zuckerberg intends to work more closely with the US government in an effort to protect free speech.
He explained: “The United States has the strongest constitutional protection of free speech in the world.
“Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws that institutionalize censorship and make it difficult to create something innovative.
“Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down.
“China has banned our programs from even working in the country.
“The only way we can reverse this global trend is with the support of the US government.”
