QUESTION

Can you please share your thoughts on megillah reading over Zoom and associated issues. Specifically:

1. Is one yotzei the mitzvah if they hear it read over Zoom? Must they follow, read along, and recite every word from a chumash? While there is no requirement for a minyan for keriat HaMegillah, do considerations of hearing it over Zoom change if there is a minyan present at the place of the reading?
2. Do all readers have to be physically present in the same place or could some read via Zoom from their home?
3. If readers reading remotely is