Sundar Pichai Likely to Get Questions on Handling of Parler
25 Mars 2021 - 5:19PM
Dow Jones News
By Bowdeya Tweh
App stores operated by Google and Apple removed the social-media
platform Parler from their marketplaces, citing violations of their
rules after the Capitol riot. But Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is
likely going to face questions about the basis for the decision and
how his company's YouTube platform dealt with calls to violence
after the election.
In written testimony
(https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/PichaiTestimony032521.pdf)
submitted before the hearing, Mr. Pichai said YouTube removed
13,000 channels between October and December of last year for
promoting violence and violent extremism. He also said YouTube
teams removed live streams or videos after the Jan. 6 storming of
the Capitol that violated the service's rules and later began
issuing strikes to users such as former President Donald Trump who
violated rules in making unsubstantiated claims about election
fraud.
How does this connect to Parler? Google has said it acted
against the platform because of continued posts--after prior
warnings about such behavior--that seek "to incite ongoing violence
in the U.S." Officials at Parler, which grew in popularity for its
looser content-moderation rules, have said that calls to violence
in the run-up to the Capitol riot happened on other platforms.
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