Google CEO Sundar Pichai Denies Executive’s Emails Showed Intent To Help Clinton Campaign
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[Google CEO Sundar Pichai Denies Executive’s Emails Showed Intent To Help Clinton Campaign]
[Mr. Jordan (Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)):]
You said, I lead this company without political bias and work to ensure that our products operate that way. Eliana Murillo, is Google’s head of multicultural marketing. Does Mrs. Murillo do good work?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
I’m not directly familiar with her work. But she is an employee of Google and you know – we are proud of our employees.
[Mr. Jordan:] Source: LYBIO.NET
Well you praised her work the day after the 2016 election, in a four-page email she wrote about her work with the Latino vote, she said, ‘Even Sundar gave our effort a shout-out.’ Is she referring to you there?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
She was referring to my communication around translation – different related effort.
[Mr. Jordan:]
Ok, I’m going to look at two other sentences she had in that long email again recapping her work in the 2016 election with the Latino vote.
She said this, ‘We pushed to get out the Latino vote with our features.’ A few lines down in her email she qualified that sentence, and she said: ‘We pushed to get out the Latino vote with our features in key states.’ And she specifically cites the states Florida and Nevada.”
Near the end of her email, in a similar sentence, she says, ‘we supported partners like Voto Latino to pay for rides to the polls in key states.’ With me?
I want to kind of analyze those two sentences:
‘We pushed to get out the Latino vote with our features in key States.’
‘We supported partners like Voto Latino to pay for rides to the polls in key states.’
Is it fair to say the “we” in both sentences, Mr. Pichai, refers to Google?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
Uh… Congressman, we – we – we are very concerned when there are allegations like that. We – we – our team looked into it –
[Mr. Jordan:]
I’m not asking you that question. I’m asking, is it fair to say that the ‘we’ in both sentences refers to the company Google?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
As Google, we wouldn’t participate in any partisan efforts around any civic process, so I don’t think so.
[Mr. Jordan:] Source: LYBIO.NET
Ok. So this is so ‘we pushed’, and ‘we supported partners like Voto Latino to pay for rides to the polls in key states.’ And ‘we pushed to get out the Latino vote during the 2016 election’ um… and how were they getting that done? They were getting that done by, according to Miss Marillo, your head of multicultural marketing, by altering your features or configuring your features in such a way, and for paying for rides for people to get to the polls.
Is that an accurate reading of those? Is that fair to say what those sentences are talking about?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
I’m not aware of all the specifics, but we did look into it. We found no evidence that there were any activity like that from Google towards that organization.
[Mr. Jordan:]
So she’s not telling the truth?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
For sure, we didn’t find any supporting evidence of any such activity um…
[Mr. Jordan:]
She said she paid for rides to the polls and they configured their features in such a way as to get out the Latino vote.
Look, look, I actually think that’s all okay. Right – that – that – I think that that’s just a good corporate citizen encouraging voter participation. Encouraging people to participate in our election process – I think so far those sentences are just fine. But then there’s three words at the end of each sentence that do cause me real concern. And those three words are:
‘We pushed to get out the Latino vote with our features in key states.’
Now suddenly it gets political. We supported partners like Voto Latino to pay for rides to the polls ‘in key states’.
Now that makes everything different. So I’ve got really just one question for you. Why?!
Why – why did Google configure its features and pay for rides to the polls to get out the Latino vote only in key states?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
Congressman, necessarily we found no evidence to substantiate those claims. The only effort we do around elections –
[Mr. Jordan:] Source: LYBIO.NET
You’re head of multicultural marketing, who you praised her work in this email, gave her a shout-out, was lying when she said you were trying to get out the Latino Vote in key states?
Jordan directly asked whether Murillo was lying. He then asked, “What I’m asking is, why did you only do it in key states?”
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
We today – in the U.S. around elections, we make it – and this is what users look to us for – where to register to vote. Where to find your nearest polling place. What are the hours they’re open? And we do – and we do those things effectively.
[Mr. Jordan:]
I appreciate that Mr. Pichai, and I already, I already said that’s – that’s being a good corporate citizen. What I’m asking is, why did you only do it in key states?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
We didn’t do any such activity as Google on any of these key states. When there are employees – I think they are –
[Mr. Jordan:]
Did you push to get out the Latino vote in ‘all states’?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
As Google, we don’t have goals around pushing out to get any particular segment, we don’t participate in partisan activities, we engage with both campaigns, we support and sponsor debates across both sides of the aisle and we provide users with information to get the election.
[Mr. Jordan:]
Your head of multi-cultural marketing said you were pushing to get out the Latino vote, paying for rides to the polls for the Latino vote, only in key states, and you’re saying that’s not accurate?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
Uh… yes, that’s right. We haven’t found any evidence to substantiate –
[Mr. Jordan:]
So she just made it up out of thin air, the day after the election – wrote this email to your top executives, and it’s not true?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
Congressman – I’m happy to follow up but I think – employees they do their own activities –
[Mr. Jordan:]
I don’t want the follow up – I want the real answers right here in this committee.
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
As I said earlier, we’ve looked into it – we didn’t find any –
[Mr. Jordan:]
Did you push to get out the key vote in – I would say the two most populous states for Latinos would be California and Texas. Did you push to get out the Latino vote and pay for people to go to the polls in California and Texas?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
We as a company didn’t have any effort to push out votes for any particular demographic. That would be against our principles. We participate in the civic process in a non-partisan way and we think it’s really important – we do it that way.
[Mr. Jordan:] Source: LYBIO.NET
Well, I just think it’s interesting – Mr Chairman I know I’m over time – but I think it’s interesting that their head of multi-cultural marketing writes an email the day after the election where she talks about 71 percent of the Latino votes voted for Hillary but that wasn’t enough and she talks about paying for rides to the polls in key states for Latino votes to get out the Latino vote in key states and the head of the company says that’s not accurate.
[Chairman:]
The time for the gentleman has expired the witness may –
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
Chairman, I think it’s important for us and we’re happy to follow the congressman there – and we haven’t found any evidence to substantiate those allegations – but –
[Mr. Jordan:]
Does Mrs. Murillo still work for the company?
[CEO Google Pichai Sundararajan:]
It’s my understanding she does. Yes, sir.
[Mr. Jordan:] Source: LYBIO.NET
There you go.
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