‘Forced labor is abhorrent’: Tech executives agree not to use slave labor

Published July 29, 2020 9:22pm ET



Four technology executives testifying in front of Congress agreed not to use slave labor to manufacture their products.

Rep. Ken Buck, a Colorado Republican who sits on the House antitrust subcommittee, got Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, which owns Google and YouTube, to agree not to use harmful practices to build their products on Wednesday afternoon.

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