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The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai will testify at a congressional hearing next week that US parliamentarians will question him about the "transparency" and "filtering practices" used by the Internet giant, announced Wednesday elected officials.
The hearing by the judicial commission of the House of Representatives, with a Republican majority until January, comes after criticism of President Donald Trump and some elected officials denouncing the "bias" of the giants of the web and reproaching, without evidence to the support, censorship of conservative voices.
In September, Sundar Pichai refused to participate in a Senate hearing on the issue of foreign influence operations. The parliamentarians had questioned the leaders of Facebook and Twitter.
In its press release announcing the hearing, the Lower House Commission says it will "examine a potential bias and a need for more transparency with regard to filtering practices" by Google.
Manipulation of public opinion
Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the commission, said the hearing would pay attention to how internet companies could "remove specific points of view and manipulate public opinion."
"Americans put their trust in big tech companies to honor freedom of expression," he said in a statement. "It is the Congress's responsibility to the American people to make technology giants transparent and accountable for their practices."
There is little evidence suggesting that Google, for political reasons, distorts research results, according to technology experts. The US company is also under fire from some of its employees, a hundred of them demanding Tuesday that Google abandons a search engine project in China respecting the censorship rules imposed by Beijing on its Internet users. (Afp / nxp)
Created: 28.11.2018, 22:05
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