House lawmakers expanded their investigation into Google and Meta’s handling of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, demanding on Wednesday that the Big Tech companies hand over more information on their internal policies and programming.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) wrote letters to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google Sundar Pichai seeking documentation on their technological processes related to the attack on Trump at his campaign rally in western Pennsylvania last month. The tech companies have been hit with allegations of censorship after users found that Google search results failed to autocomplete queries for the attempted assassination and Meta’s AI bot describing the attack as fictional.
“On behalf of the American people, the Committee is dedicated to fully understanding when and how information is being suppressed or…
