Google has been accused multiple times of suppressing political views they don't like, of favoring the left in their search algorithms. They always denied it.
Back in 2018, CEO Sundar Pichai (photo) stressed that they operate without political bias.
As late as last October, he claimed Google's innocence for almost four hours before a congressional committee. He said they are as objective as possible.
Now . . everybody knows the accusations were correct and the denials were lies, because they've admitted it in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee. The previous administration pressured them repeatedly, they say, to remove content from Youtube and they did it.
They admit it was "unacceptable and wrong," and they "will allow creators banned for political speech on COVID-19, elections, and related issues an opportunity to return to the platform."
Maybe they're sorry. Or . . maybe they're just complying to the "vibe shift" and they'll do it again as soon as it's convenient to do so.
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