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Months after Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg went before Congress to testify about his company’s data-privacy practices, Google CEO Pichai faced questioning Tuesday by members of the House Judiciary Committee about political bias, data collection, privacy and the possibility that the online giant would launch a new, censored version of its internet search engine in China. Pichai was the only person who testified during the session, titled “Transparency & Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collection, Use and Filtering Practices.”
Among the topics committee members grilled Pichai about are political bias in Google search results. The company has come under fire from President Donald Trump and some Republican legislators, who assert that the tech giant gives preference to liberal groups and organizations as well as promotes anti-conservative positions in some of its search results.