Google's Sergey Brin Calls the 2016 "Offensive" Election in a Video Disclosed

At a meeting every day after the election of President Donald Trump, Google's co-founder, Sergey Brin, said that he had felt offended by the 2016 election and was convinced that many of his colleagues felt the same way. Wednesday.

The video is that of Google's weekly "TGIF" meeting, during which the company typically hears the remarks of the executives and the employees are encouraged to ask questions about everything from the lunch menu to the company's developments. .

"Let's face it, most people here are very upset and very sad because of the elections," said Brin, also president of Google's parent company, Alphabet. "As an immigrant and refugee, I find this election deeply shocking and I'm sure many of you too."

Brin was not the only leader of the search giant to comment on the election.

"There are a lot of fears at Google, I've got a lot of emails … there are people who are very scared," said Google CEO Sundar Pichai. "I grew up in India and there were a lot of things that were not going well, but it was a democratic country and we went through many, many, many times like this."

At one point, the CFO alphabet, Ruth Porat, seems to hold her tears when talking about the election night. "It was that massive kick in the bowel that we were going to lose," she said. "And it was really painful."

The video is expected to accelerate the examination of Google among conservatives, who recently accused the company of political bias in the company services. The leak comes a week after Google jumped a top audience at Capitol Hill, where Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discussed the integrity of elections, security and perceived trends of the company's algorithms. The decision not to send Pichai's CEO or Alphabet, Larry Page, has generated widespread anger on the part of lawmakers.

A spokesman for Google said the remarks at the meeting have no bearing on how Google builds its products.

"During a regularly scheduled all-around meeting, some employees and Google executives have voiced their personal opinions following a long election season," said the spokesperson. "Nothing was said at this meeting or at any other meeting to suggest that political bias influences the way we build or operate our products – on the contrary, our products are designed for everyone and we design them. with extraordinary care, a reliable source of information for all, regardless of the political point of view. "

That might not be enough to convince Trump, who last month accused Google of political bias. He tweeted that Google's search results were "RIGGED", claiming that the company was "suppressing conservative voices".

"I think Google has really benefited a lot of people," he told reporters later in the day. "Google, Twitter and Facebook, they are really on very disturbed territories, and they have to be careful."

Then, one day later, he tweeted a video claiming that Google promoted former President Barack Obama's state of the union talks in January, but not his. Trump added the hashtag #StopTheBias.

Google denied this accusation, claiming that the homepage of the search engine had been promoting Trump's address last January. Google has said that it has not promoted Trump's or Obama's addresses since their early years in power, as these speeches were not considered state of the Union addresses. (A screen capture of Internet Archive, which keeps track of what appears on the Web domains saved in Google's explanation.)

Last month, Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking him to review Google's research and digital advertising practices.

The giants of Silicon Valley are only required to obtain further scrutiny from Washington. On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation said it invited representatives from Google, Apple, Amazon and other companies to testify about data privacy.

Sean Hollister of CNET contributed to this report.

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