GOP calls for investigation into Google

A Republican congressman and congressman-elect called for an investigation of Google last Friday morning after it was revealed the previous day that the company's employees talked about burying conservative media outlets in their search function after President Trump was elected.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) called upon the DOJ to investigate the company and Senator-elect Josh Hawley (R-MO) called for Google's top executives to explain themselves "under oath."

Not surprisingly, no Democrats were overtly upset by the revelation that Google had favored their party and was willing to compromise fairness to showcase their views over those of conservatives.

On Friday Hawley tweeted:

So what do we have here? Looks like a monopoly scheming to use its market power to silence news [and] viewpoints it doesn't like. Starting to see a pattern here. Google execs need to explain what is going on here. Under oath.

Gosar tweeted Friday morning:

Google has a virtual monopoly as far as search engines go. It's past time @DOJPH [sic] investigate this and it's time Congress evaluates Google's suppression of ideas, content, discussion.

A Nov. 9, 2016 internal Google communications written by Scott Byer, a Google engineer, stated:

How many times did you see the Election now card with items from opinion blogs (Breitbart, Daily Caller) elevated next to legitimate news organizations? That’s something that can and should be fixed. … Beyond that, let’s concentrate on teaching critical thinking. A little bit of that would go a long way. Let’s make sure that we reverse things in four years – demographics will be on our side.

The call for an investigation made by Hawley and Gosar follows the announcement by the House Judiciary Committee that Google's CEO Sundar Pichai will testify them on Dec. 5 to answer their questions about the company's political bias. 

Pichai had been criticized by GOP lawmakers on Sept. 5th at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on social media and foreign election meddling.

“Today the company accounts for nearly 90 percent of worldwide search traffic. … Unfortunately, recent reports suggest Google might not be wielding its vast power impartially,” committee member and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a Wednesday press release.

Facebook and Twitter executives testified, and an empty chair with a nameplate that said “Google” sat where the company’s representative would have been.

Now we need to know if the person who will sit in the empty chair will turn out to be an empty suit.


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