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  • On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump went after Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a series of tweets.
  • Trump said Pichai "was in the Oval Office working very 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."
  • Trump's outburst was seemingly spurred by a segment on Fox Business' "Lou Dobbs Tonight" that featured a former Google engineer named Kevin Cernekee accusing Google of bias against Trump.

 

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Image:Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

 

 

President Donald Trump went after Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday morning in a series of tweets.

 

Trump said Pichai had visited the Oval Office and was "working very 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, and that they are NOT planning to illegally subvert the 2020 Election despite all that has been said to the contrary."

 

Pichai and other tech leaders have repeatedly visited the White House since Trump was elected in 2016.

 

It wasn't immediately clear which meeting with Pichai that Trump was referring to, and White House press representatives didn't immediately clarify. Pichai's most recent meeting with Trump was in March, when the two men discussed relations with China and "political fairness," Trump said.

 

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Image:President Donald Trump and Pichai

 

Trump's outburst at Pichai was seemingly in response to a segment on Fox Business' "Lou Dobbs Tonight" that featured a former Google engineer named Kevin Cernekee.

 

In an interview with "Fox & Friends" that was replayed in the segment, Cernekee, who was fired from Google in 2018, accused Google of bias against Trump and intentionally altering the way its service works.

 

Trump had embedded a video of the segment in a tweet that read: "Check out what @Google is up to for the 2020 election!"

 

In the interview, Cernekee said Google intended to "use all the power and all the resources that they have to control the flow of information to the public and make sure that Trump loses in 2020."

This is far from the first time Google has become a political target.

 

Trump has made similar accusations of bias in the past, and last week Peter Thiel, the Facebook board member and prominent Silicon Valley conservative, published a scathing op-ed article in The New York Times blasting Google's relationship with China.

 

Google has repeatedly denied allegations of anti-conservative bias, and representatives have testified in front of Congress that the allegations are unfounded.

 

"The statements made by this disgruntled former employee are absolutely false," a Google representative said on Tuesday morning. "We go to great lengths to build our products and enforce our policies in ways that don't take political leanings into account. 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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18 hours ago, mkc21 said:

too late bros, Google has become as strong as any gov. And this isn't even over, they keep growing

 

There is a saying.  When you let the tiger get to big, it usually eats everything in its path.  They can't hide the bias from us anymore.  It is so blatant in their biased against those who holds opposite point of view from them.   I believe the current censorship is a testing ground for further deployment to other markets around the world.  Changing search results, changing pictures, changing definitions to words, etc. It's like watching a basketball game where the referee has to step in and call a technical foul on a player for being out of control.  Or a referee calling a fragrant foul for an intentional act.   They have no one to blame but themselves.  Gone are the good old days when they first started.  What is their motto again?  wikipedia:  Don't be evil  "...adding that the slogan was "also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users to some extent"  smh.  :closedeyes::ermm:

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16 minutes ago, flash48 said:

Google is too big and the government needs to break it into several pieces.

It use to sort of be that way each one of there services had a different privacy policy and was much better company than they are now

 

Google Consolidates Privacy Policy; Will Combine User Data Across Services

https://techcrunch.com/2012/01/24/google-consolidates-privacy-policy-will-combine-user-data-across-services/

 

Once they done that  i stop using any of there services  signed in  . Google is a example of why you can't trust  no tech company . I use to be a supporter  of them tell i seen them change , They gained  a lot of people's trust over the years and  then started abusing  it too make profit . Yahoo  use to be were there at  now , one day something really bad will happen to Google to cause the masses to lose trust in them like people who are concerned about privacy already did years ago. Bad Karma will comeback on them for abusing the naive peoples trust. What comes around goes around.

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