Sundar Pichai sends clear memo to Google employees ahead of US results day

Google Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai has asked his employees in an email that the company should be a “trusted source of information for people of all backgrounds and faiths,” regardless of who wins the US presidential election, reported the Washington Post.

Pichai's comments are seen by Big Tech companies as an attempt to avoid becoming embroiled in political divisions in an election year.

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In September of this year, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would prosecute the search engine giant if he won the election. The former US president claimed that Google only shows “bad stories about him”.

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“Google was found to have unlawfully used a system of disclosing and displaying only bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some of which were fabricated for that purpose, while revealing only good stories about Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris “said Trump in a post on his social network Truth Social.

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