The three-and-a-half-hour hearing with Google CEO Sundar Pichai and the House Judiciary Committee wasn’t exactly a showcase of deep knowledge of technology. One Republican representative complained that all the Google results for the Obamacare repeal act and the Republican tax bill were negative. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) had to be told that Google does not make the iPhone. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) demanded that Google be held liable for Wikipedia’s “political bias.”
But one lawmaker, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), raised an actually important and pressing issue: the way YouTube’s algorithms can be used to push conspiracy theories.
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