Three Republican senators called on Google’s top executive to respond to allegations that the tech giant manipulated pre-election vote reminder messages on its search platform to benefit Democrats, potentially shifting “millions of votes.”
A letter signed by GOP Senators Ron Johnson (Wis.), Ted Cruz (Texas), and Mike Lee (Utah), and addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai (pdf), claims that an academic election monitoring project found that, for several days ahead of Election Day, Google displayed get-out-the-vote messages only to liberals and not to conservatives.
