By Brooke Mallory, OAN Staff
Thursday, August 15, 2024 11:12 AM
Google received more bad news on Wednesday when a key congressional oversight committee announced it had opened an investigation into whether the company misled the American public about last month’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
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House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told staff last week that Google had allegedly failed to update its “safety protocols” in response to the violence that acknowledged the former president was in fact shot on July 13, causing the search engine’s autocomplete feature to filter out “Trump assassination attempt” from related searches.Number During an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Comer said that whether intentional or not, the issue contributed to a trend of unjust election interference by Big Tech that dates back to 2020 attempts by Democrats, mainstream media and even contractors hired by the CIA to suppress truthful reporting about politically damaging data found on Hunter Biden’s laptop. He claimed the attacks had “classic hallmarks of Russian disinformation.”
“Americans rely on popular internet search engines like Google to gather news and information important to their understanding of our nation’s politics and events, especially during election seasons,” Comer wrote in the letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
“On behalf of the American people, the committee is committed to fully understanding when and how information is suppressed or altered, whether because of technical error, security policies, or specific intent to mislead,” he continued.
Comer also shared similar concerns in a letter to Mark Zuckerberg’s parent company about Meta Platform’s AI chatbot falsely claiming that “there was no actual assassination attempt against Donald Trump.”
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