Posted on 12/11/2018 9:27:14 AM PST by Ennis85
Google chief Sundar Pichai has faced accusations of political bias from US politicians.
Mr Pichai was being quizzed by members of the House Judiciary Committee about the way his tech firm runs it business.
Google was accused of having "programmed" bias against conservative views into its algorithms.
Mr Pichai denied the accusation saying he had "issues" with studies that claimed to show the firm's search results excluded right-wing views.
Privacy protection
Republican committee member Lamar Smith said conservative voices were being "muted" via Google's search results.
"Such actions pose a grave threat to our democratic form of government," he said.
"This does not happen by accident, it is baked in to the algorithms."
Mr Pichai said independent studies had not uncovered any bias and added that his business was "transparent" about the way its search results were generated.
"We evaluate our studies and our research results," said Mr Pichai.
"We have a wide variety of sources, from both left and right."
He added that it was "impossible" for any individual or group of individuals to manipulate its algorithms.
In response to a further question about perceived bias, he said: "I'm confident we don't approach our work with any political bias."
He added: "It's important that we look at outcomes and assess that there's no evidence of bias."
Future search
Mr Pichai was also asked about the work Google was doing in China on the controversial "dragonfly" project.
This is believed to be a search engine drawn up under the oversight of the Chinese government that would censor topics at the behest of the regime.
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee suggested the work could "censor a Chinese person's lifeline to democracy".
She asked: "How can you do that?"
In response, Mr Pichai said: "Right now we have no plans to launch in China.
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No! We aren’t ‘biased’ against evil, filthy, rotten, scumbag Republicans!
Whatever gave you THAT idea?.....................
He has “issues” with the studies?
aaawwwwwww.. Po’ baby.
What a bunch of dweebs the heads of social(ist) meddia sites are... we’re just a bunch of bovine, ripe for the milking
YouTube’s removing commercial revenues from numerous conservative presenters AND putting others behind artificial barriers for ‘offensive content’ leads me to doubt these words by Alphabet/Google leadership.
Nobody’s asked him about YouTube and their demonitization policies and outright account bannings against conservatives?
Major freakin’ lie, as usual.
An obvious lie.
GOOGLE deliberately provides politically biased replies to search queries. Run few searches and you can see the biases in the replies.
“No we don’t have politcal bias!
No no no no no no no no.....” he explained.
Baghdad Bob?
Google “American Inventors”
Nuff said.
What? It isn't even difficult, and it's a cottage industry unto itself. Has Pichai never heard of search engine optimization? Search engine poisoning? Or did he mean that the algorithms themselves are immutable and written in stone? That simply isn't an answer any IT professional would give, not if he expected his testimony to be credible.
Sundar Pichai,
LIAR,
“He added that it was ‘impossible’ for any individual or group of individuals to manipulate its algorithms.”
foreach(searchResult) {
if searchResult.politicalCorrectness() <= HATE_SPEECH_THRESHOLD {
searchResult.delete();
}
searchResult.sortOrder = 1 / searchResult.politicalCorrectness();
}
You have to understand that for these people, being pro-democrat is not biased. To them, it is the norm, and anyone not agreeing with them is stupid, racist and low-life.
All they needed to do to catch him lying was play the post election video of him and all the top level Google management telling their employees that Trump should never have happened and they will prevent it in the future. Then let the smug moron claim he did not say those things with his top management. Imagine being an employee that voted for Trump, what a hostile work environment.
LOL! Bullshit.
More like Saheed Al-Pichai.
” Google “American Inventors”
Nuffsaid. “
Yeah, ‘ seen that, uneffnbelieveable !
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