Google CEO Sundar Pichai According to reports, ahead of Election Day in the United States, Google and YouTube employees “ensure our platforms provide high-quality and reliable information to voters.” republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Accusing Google of bias. Trump claimed in September that the search giant only showed “bad stories about him.” Google refutes these claims.
The Washington Post first reported that the CEO had sent an internal memo to his staff. In the memo obtained by The Verge, Pichai said: “We should be proud of our work and the work our teams are doing to ensure campaign security, provide accurate information about where and how to vote, and deliver digital advertising to voters. We are proud of our efforts. Pichai also said that “artificial intelligence gives us a profound opportunity to advance” and make information universally available.
Here is the full memo sent by Sundar Pichai
Hi Googlers,
Tomorrow is Election Day, and many people in America will go to the polls to cast their votes, from school boards to judges to Congress and the President.
The teams at Google and YouTube have been working hard to ensure that our platforms provide voters with high-quality and reliable information, just as we have done for many other elections around the world – in fact, dozens of countries have held important, high-profile elections This year’s elections are fiercely contested, from France to India, the United Kingdom, Mexico and beyond, with well over a billion people set to vote by 2024.
We should be proud of our work and the efforts our teams put into ensuring campaign security, providing accurate information about where and how to vote, and providing digital advertising solutions to campaigns. Thank you to everyone who worked hard day and night throughout the campaign season and vote counting process.
As with other elections, the results will be a major talking point in living rooms and elsewhere around the world. Of course, the results will have important consequences.
No matter who voters entrust, let us remember what we do at work, through the products we build, and the role we play as a business: to be a trusted source of information for people of all backgrounds and beliefs. We will and must maintain this. In this spirit, everyone must continue to abide by our Community Guidelines and Personal Political Activity Policy.
After Election Day, we will continue our work to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Al provides us with a profound opportunity to make progress on this mission, build great products and partnerships, drive innovation, and make significant contributions to the state and local economies. When we focus on this, our company is at its best.
Thanks, Sundar
