The CEO of Google will testify before the Congress on December 5

Google CEO Sundar Pichai travels to Washington.

Mr. Pichai is scheduled to appear before the Judiciary Committee of the House on December 5 for a hearing on Google's prejudices against the Conservatives, according to a source close to the plan. The Washington Post first announced the new Tuesday night.

This will be Pichai's first congressional hearing. In September, the CEO of the research giant ignored a high-level hearing on technology, which included Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Beside Sandberg and Dorsey there was an empty chair and a label with the name "Google". Pichai and Larry Page, CEO of Google Parent, Alphabet, were invited but did not show up.

Their absence attracted widespread anger from lawmakers.

Google and Pichai have been subjected to a tight control of Washington, the company has been accused of political bias. In August, President Donald Trump accused Google of political bias and liberal tendency. He tweeted that Google's search results are "rigged", claiming that the company "suppresses conservative voices". He also has tweeted a video claiming that Google had promoted speeches on the state of the Union of former President Barack Obama every January, but not his own. Trump added the hashtag #StopTheBias.

Google rejected the president's request, saying his home page was promoting Trump's speech in January. The company also explained that it had neither promoted the address of Trump nor that of Obama in their early years in power, as these speeches are not technically considered as addresses of the state of the Union. An Internet Archive screen capture, which keeps a record of what appears on the Web domains, backs up Google's explanation.

More generally, Google has been faced with other controversies. Earlier this month, 20,000 Google employees in offices around the world left the protest to protest the company's handling of badual harbadment complaints against prominent leaders.

Google has also been subject to rumors about the Dragonfly project, the company's apparent project to build a censored search engine for China, eight years after its retirement from the country. At the time of departure, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who grew up in the Soviet Union, cited the "totalitarianism" of Chinese politics.

Google said its research efforts in China are only "exploratory" and that the company is "not close" to launching a research product there. Google did not give many other details about the project. However, last month, Keith Enright, Google's Privacy Officer, confirmed at a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee that there was a Dragonfly project, but it did not work. Did not want to say more.

Pichai, meanwhile, is trying to repair Google's relationship with the federal government. The CEO reportedly went to Washington in September to meet lawmakers, including California Republican Kevin McCarthy, in closed meetings.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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