POLICY
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Accused of bias against conservatives, Google draws Trump warning
U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed a salvo of tweets aimed at Google LLC Tuesday, stating that there was a conservative bias at the company, among other things.
Trump also had words for Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai, whom he said in a recent meeting with him worked hard “to explain how much he liked me, what a great job the Administration is doing, that Google was not involved with China’s military, that they didn’t help Crooked Hillary over me in the 2016 Election.”
The president added that he hoped that Google was not going to try to “illegally subvert the 2020 election,” and then invoked the former Google employee Kevin Cernekee. The fired engineer has recently come out and said Google does indeed have a conservative bias, to the chagrin of Trump.
“You can see bias at every level of the organization,” Cernekee said in an interview with Fox News. “One thing that I’ve noticed is that just handling of routine issues is plagued with bias, like they will get a report, an e-mail from a liberal reporter complaining about something and they will jump on it and they will fix the issue very, very quickly.”
Cernekee went on, “They made every excuse in the book to avoid taking down something that made Donald Trump look bad. And I saw a number of other incidents just like that.” He then added the bombshell that Google wanted Trump to lose in 2016 and the company wants him to lose in 2020.
“All very illegal,” Trump responded in a tweet. “We are watching Google very closely!” Google fired back, stating that the statements were “false” and Cernekee, fired for downloading confidential information, was merely disgruntled. If there is evidence of illegal activity, that remains to be seen, but no charges have so far been brought against Google.
“We go to great lengths to build our products and enforce our policies in ways that don’t take political leanings into account,” Google said in a statement. “Distorting results for political purposes would harm our business and go against our mission of providing helpful content to all of our users.”
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