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After Republicans Grilled Google's CEO Over Negative Search Results, Democratic Congressman Had the Perfect Response

After Republicans Grilled Google's CEO Over Negative Search Results, Democratic Congressman Had the Perfect Response
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Burn.

Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) tore into Representative Steve King (R-IA) over King's history of racist remarks during a hearing with Google CEO Sundar Pichai Tuesday afternoon.

The House Judiciary Committee questioned Pichai over whether Google manipulated search engine results in order to favor certain individuals over others.


"You don't have a group of people at Google sitting there thinking, 'Hey, we like Steve Scalise, so we're going to generate positive articles on these search results,'" Lieu asked Pichai. "That's not what's happening, right?"

Pichai replied: "No, we don't deal with individual queries and with any viewpoint."

After Googling House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), Lieu read off a series of positive headlines about Scalise, who was injured in a shooting at a Congressional baseball practice game in 2017.

Lieu then entered King's name into the search engine. The results were negative articles about bigoted comments made by the Iowa Congressman.

"I'm going to change one word," Lieu said. "So I'm going to search for 'Congressman Steve King,' I'm going to hit the 'News' tab. First article that pops up is from ABC News. It says 'Steve King's racist immigration talk prompts calls for congressional censure.' That's a negative article. But you don't have a group of people at Google sitting there thinking and trying to modify search results - every time Steve King comes up, a negative article appears. That's not what's happening, right?"

Pichai again said no, Google does not tamper with results.

Looking at King, Lieu had some advice for King - stop being saying racist things.

"So let me just conclude here by stating the obvious," Lieu said. "If you want positive search results, do positive things. If you don't want negative search results, don't do negative things. And to some of my colleagues across the aisle, if you're getting bad press articles and bad search results, don't blame Google or Facebook or Twitter - consider blaming yourself."

Watch the exchange below:

Twitter went wild.

Republicans' lack of basic technical prowess is stunning, to say the least.

In 2018, lawmakers should understand how the internet works.

Back in August, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to whine that when he Googled “Trump news” – only the “Fake New [sic] Media” appeared in the results. The president suggested Google was “rigging” the internet and “shutting out” right-leaning news sites.

Specifically, Trump claimed that 96 percent of “results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous.”

CNN, The Washington Post, and NBC were the three most-frequent results for a “Trump news” Google search – because they are news sites.

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