Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s listening to earlier than House postponed for Bush funeral

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s testimony on the corporate’s social media practices will probably be postponed by a state funeral for President George H.W. Bush.


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Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s testimony earlier than Congress on the corporate’s social media practices will probably be postponed due to the state funeral for former President George H. W. Bush, a House Judiciary Committee spokeswoman confirmed.

Pichai was initially scheduled to testify Wednesday earlier than the committee in Washington, to handle allegations of bias towards conservatives on the corporate’s platforms. Pichai skipped a high-profile tech listening to in September that included Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

A state funeral for Bush, who died Friday on the age of 94, can be scheduled for Wednesday on the National Cathedral in Washington. Wednesday will probably be a nationwide day of mourning.

Pichai’s listening to has not but been rescheduled, however Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, stated in an interview with Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures present that he expects it to occur subsequent week.

“But we expect that to occur and it’s very, very important that it do occur,” he stated, in line with a Reuters account of the interview.

Aside from questions of conservative bias, lawmakers are anticipated to ask Pichai about Project Dragonfly, an effort to construct a censored search engine for China. Lawmakers are additionally anticipated to press Google on information assortment, together with a bug that left customers’ private info uncovered on its Google Plus social community for 2 years. After the bug was disclosed, Google introduced it might shut down the social community in August. 

Pichai can be anticipated to attend a separate assembly on the White House together with different tech leaders together with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz. That assembly, scheduled for Dec. 6, remains to be on monitor for that date, a White House spokeswoman stated. 

Google did not instantly reply to a request for remark.

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First published Dec. 2 at 10:20 a.m. PT.
Update, Dec. 3 at 11 a.m. PT: Adds confirmation of hearing postponement and context about White House meeting.