In July 2020, Cicilline chaired a meeting of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law, which included Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg,Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai, so that they could testify regarding their platforms. Cicilline and the other members of the bi-partisan committee extensively interrogated and scrutinized the four CEOs, and accused them of anti-competitive practices, with Cicilline insinuating that the various platforms had problems concerning their competitive practices. When questioning Pichai, Cicilline claimed that Google's business model was a problem, and displayed emails from over a decade ago that showed the company had engaged in "a pattern of anti-competitive behavior." He also argued that the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for the regulation of these companies, and compared them to past monopolies, such as the railroads and oil tycoons, AT&T, and Microsoft.