White House to Meet Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple on Virus
- Trump’s chief technology officer will be host of the session
- Social media companies are trying to weed out misinformation
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The White House will host a meeting Wednesday with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and other tech companies to coordinate responses to the growing coronavirus outbreak.
The meeting will be hosted by U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios, according to a spokeswoman for the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.