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In an article, Wednesday, the Verge analyzed Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s comments about Project Dragonfly, Google’s censored Chinese search app project, during his hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said “ad accounts linked to Russia” spent “about $4,700 in advertising” to influence 2016’s presidential election.

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) highlighted Breitbart News while telling Google CEO Sundar Pichai that the company’s search engine “overly [uses] conservative news organizations” in its news feeds, offering his remarks in a Tuesday House Judiciary Committee hearing.

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler (D-NY) delivered a strong rebuke of Republican accusations of Google’s political bias affecting its search engines on Tuesday; however, according to Open Secrets donor database, Nadler’s top donor was Google.

After Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai about reports of Google’s bias against conservatives during Pichai’s hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, Pichai denied any bias, dodged questions, and claimed human employees were unable to manipulate algorithms.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai failed to explain why Google image searches for the term “idiot” return pictures of President Trump during a hearing today before the House Judiciary Committee.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is set to appear before the House Judiciary Committee today at 10:00 a.m. EST to discuss Google’s collection and use of user data.

A 22-year-old Google employee was found dead in the company’s New York City office, Friday, according to a report.

Google is working towards “reducing gender bias in Google Translate,” by providing both masculine and feminine translations for words, and will also work to provide “non-binary” translations in the future.

A Google software engineer revealed concerning details about the company’s efforts to please the government China before it launched its latest entry into the country — the censored Chinese search app “Project Dragonfly” — which allegedly included the company blacklisting Chinese dissidents from its buildings for fear of upsetting the Chinese government.

European Union regulators are reportedly asking Google competitors whether the Big Tech company is harming them.

Over 300 Google employees have signed an open letter calling on the Silicon Valley giant to end development on “Project Dragonfly,” its censored Chinese search engine which has been widely criticized by human rights organizations and elected officials, including Vice President Mike Pence.

Amnesty International is reportedly organizing mass protests against Google over the company’s development of a censored Chinese search app, code-named” Project Dragonfly.”

A.I. used by Google in Gmail to auto-suggest words to users while they’re typing will not suggest “gender-based pronouns” for fear of misgendering people and causing offense, according to a report.

The chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is reportedly unsure about Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s plans to introduce a censored Chinese search engine.

The stock market plunged in the first hour of trading after retailers reported disappointing quarterly results.

81 percent of parents allow their children aged 11 and under to watch YouTube videos, while 34 percent claimed their children watch YouTube videos “regularly,” despite 61 percent of parents claiming to have encountered content “unsuitable for children” on the platform, according to a Pew Research survey.

Thousands of Google employees around the world joined in with the #GoogleWalkout protest against Google executives’ alleged protection of sexual harassers at the company.

Rich DeVaul, one of the executives at Google parent company Alphabet accused of sexual misconduct in an exposé by the New York Times, has reportedly resigned from the company.

A new report from the New York Times alleges that the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe at Google protected executives accused of sexual misconduct for years, even keeping an executive’s mistress on the payroll.

A privacy expert has quit the Google-owned Sidewalk Labs smart city project, citing fears of constant surveillance within the proposed city.

Big Tech company employees are pouring money into Democratic candidate Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s senate campaign in an attempt to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), with employees from Google parent company Alphabet listed as the second largest donating force.

A recent article published by the New Yorker asks the question many have asked about Silicon Valley’s race to develop self-driving cars: “Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?”

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry will reportedly encourage Attorney General Jeff Sessions to break up Google, Facebook, and Twitter during a meeting next week.

Jonathan Taplin, director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California, warned in a recent interview that tech monopolies are going to become an increasingly big problem in the future.

90 percent of political donations from Google, YouTube, and parent company Alphabet go to Democrats, according to a report.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) wrote to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simmons on Thursday, urging the agency to investigate Google’s anti-competitive practices.

Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and Salesforce have launched a campaign for restrictions on data sharing between hospitals to be dropped.

Tech giant Google has officially removed the long-time company motto of “Don’t be evil” from its code of conduct.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee who claimed allegations of social media censorship against conservatives were “baseless” and a “hoax,” on Thursday, received over $20,000 from Google parent company Alphabet between 2017 and 2018 alone, and received thousands more in previous years.

Google has announced a $300 million “News Initiative,” which will support and promote what the company deems to be “high quality journalism,” and work towards monitoring “misinformation” during elections.

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) smacked down her former Silicon Valley allies this week by blocking a federal deregulation that would have expedited the testing of self-driving cars.

Former Google Chairman Eric Schmidt claimed Terminator-style A.I. “death scenarios” are “one to two decades away,” during the Munich Security Conference last month.

The lawsuit between Waymo and Uber has been dismissed as the tech companies reached a surprise settlement.

Facebook, Google, and other Silicon Valley companies are reportedly restricting employee relationships and dating practices with company dating policies.

Domino’s Pizza employs more people in their IT department than anywhere else in the company, and their embracing of technology has helped its stock outperform numerous tech giants, according to a report.