Exclusive Tom Cotton Presses Google CEO over Election Interference
Especially given the proximity to the November 2020 presidential election, the fact that Google appears to be delisting search results critical of former Vice President Joe Biden is particularlydisturbing.
Most Americans assume that Google shows them the most relevant results when they search the web, rather than curated results designedto support a corporations preferred political party.
Cottons letter also comes in the wake of Pichais testimony, alongside Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Apple CEO Tim Cook, before an antitrust subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee this week.
That same executive suggested during the meeting that it is incredibly valuable that Google is a trusted source of information.
To prove these denials by Google were untrue, Cotton cited Breitbart Newss investigation published this week, which he said, presented compelling evidence that shows Google is manipulating its search engine operations to help Bidens campaign.
Despite Googles previous denials of bias, itwas reported this week thatGoogle may be manipulating its search engine operations to block content appearing when users search for Joe Biden, Cotton wrote. A Breitbart News article presented compelling evidence indicating that, in early May, Google manipulated its algorithm to cause the wholesale removal of rank and visibility of Breitbart results mentioning Vice President Biden.While most news websites derive 30%-50% of their online traffic from Google search results, for Breitbart News that number is only 9%.
Cotton noted that this evidence suggests Googles denials that conservative media are not on a blacklist strain credulity.
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