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Google CEO Will Testify Before US House on Bias Accusations (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in November, following the midterm elections. He met with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other senior Republicans Friday to discuss accusations that Google is biased against conservatives (a charge the company has denied). From a report: "I think we've really shown that there is bias, which is human nature, but you have to have transparency and fairness," McCarthy said. "As big tech's business grows, we have not had enough transparency and that has led to an erosion of trust and, perhaps worse, harm to consumers." Alphabet's Google unit has repeatedly denied accusations of bias against conservatives. Pichai left the meeting without comment. Pichai wrote in an internal email last week that suggestions that Google would interfere in search results for political reasons were "absolutely false. We do not bias our products to favor any political agenda." [...] Asked if Republicans will push to break up Google, McCarthy said: "I don"t see that." He said the hearing will look at privacy, bias issues, China and other matters.

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  1. The only proper response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "You're full of shit"

    Alex Jones stayed online for years and you can still find his insane rants in Google's search results even though he's been kicked off of all the major social networking sites due to his constant attempts to incite violence and death threats towards parents whose children were murdered.

    Trump supporters who literally identify themselves as Nazis show up in Google's search results too.

    If Google was actually trying to add a left-leaning bias to their search results, they would at least exclude the most extreme right-wing bullshit, but they don't.

    1. Re:The only proper response by TRUMP+IS+IDIOT+(.) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Why don't you search for something without putting "conservative nazi" or "alex jones" in the query, take a screen shot of it, and put it on imgur?

      I double dog dare you. This conspiracy theorist was banned for a reason. He was banned off YouTube, twitter, paypal, pretty much every platform, google adsense for being a conspiracy theorist and good luck finding google results anymore. He's dangerous.

  2. Re:Why does google have to be bias free? by Cyberax · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fox is actually pretty fair and balanced by comparison but feel free rave on.

    And Trump is the bestest president that never ever lies.