House Committee on Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is launching an investigation following recent concerning reports indicating Meta’s (Facebook’s owner) AI assistant and Google Search’s Autocomplete function generated inaccurate or nongermane information related to the assassination attempt of President Donald Trump.
The following information is from the Oversight Committee.
The Oversight Committee has long been concerned with how large technology companies leverage their businesses to influence public opinion, especially against the backdrop of an alarming pattern of speech suppression and censorship peddled through technology and social media companies. In a letter to Google Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai, Chairman Comer requests documents and information to better understand how Google designs its Search product and Autocomplete features. In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman Comer seeks documents and information to better understand how the Meta AI chatbot is designed, reviewed, managed, and updated.
“Americans rely upon prominent internet search engines such as Google to gather news and information critical to their understanding of national politics and events—and never more so than during a Presidential election season,” wrote Chairman Comer to Google CEO Pichai. “On behalf of the American people, the Committee is dedicated to fully understanding when and how information is being suppressed or modified, whether it be due to technical error, a policy intended to ensure safety, or a specific intent to mislead. Google users report that autocompleted search prompts related to the assassination attempt of President Trump produced results for failed assassination attempts of former Presidents, including Harry Truman, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan—or even assassinations of historical figures such as Archduke Franz Ferdinand—but omitted from the list of automatically generated search suggestions the recent attempt on President Trump’s life. The Committee now writes to request certain documents and information to assist its investigation of this matter to better understand how Google designs its Search product and Autocomplete feature.”
In August 2022, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Facebook censored the New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop following warnings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Facebook should be cautious of misinformation and foreign interference. The Committee advanced, and the U.S. House passed, H.R. 140, the Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act, to expressly prohibit federal employees from using their authority to influence or coerce a private sector entity to censor any lawful speech posted on its service by a person or entity.
“The Committee has long been concerned with how large technology companies leverage their businesses to influence public opinion—especially the design and use of content moderation policies within private sector social media companies—and how company policies are shaped and influenced by Executive Branch officials,” wrote Chairman Comer to Meta CEO Zuckerberg. “When asked if the assassination on President Trump was fictional, Meta’s bot responded that there ‘was no real assassination attempt on Donald Trump. I strive to provide accurate and reliable information, but sometimes mistakes can occur.’ The Committee requests that Meta produce all internal policies or any other documents related to how the Meta AI chatbot is designed, reviewed, managed, and updated.”
Read the letter to Google CEO Pichai here.
Read the letter to Meta CEO Zuckerberg here.
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Here are the facts….Crooks is simply a distraction…he had nothing to do with the attack on President Trump, Nor did Iran or the person with the letters he was trying to deliver to President Trump. These are all attempts by the authorities and corrupt mainstream media to coverup what is most likely the real story. What most probably happened on the attempt on President Trump’s life? There is a massive rush to blame the kid, the incompetence of the local police and now the focus on the Democrats to find a viable Presidential candidate and the Olympics. Why is there no focus on the multiple proven reports of 3 shooters? Even CNN reported it. Very early sound forensics reported that there were at least 3 shooters with the first 3 shots were from a high powered gun much more powerful than the gun the kid had. The gun the shot that hit President Trump came from that gun. Also a photo taken by a photographer standing right in front of President Trump, with a high speed lens caught the trajectory, The shot was traveling up from a position well below President Trump. It could not have come from the roof. I could easily have come from the first floor of the building the kid was on. The next 4 shots came from a gun like the kid had and the last, from it is assumed, was the shot that took the kid out. There is another mystery….a crime scene blood analyst indicated that if the kid had been hit with a bullet from the sniper on the other side of the podium, the blood splatter would have been massive and wide spread…It was not. Also the body would have been more mangled and his teeth would have been behind his body not ahead…..this suggests the last shot sound was from someone on the roof behind the kid, who shot him at close range to remove a potential onsite witness. There is now a new video that shows the police/FBI and others with guns pushing the attendees out of the area around the building with Crooks on top 20 minutes or so before the shooting. The video also captures all of the shots. The video suggests that the sniper shots , the first three come from either the lower level of the building or from someone just out side on the non-visible side.?? And now the story of kids body being cremated secretly….coverup of evidence that would blow up the massive disinformation campaign by the left. I hope the Congressional investigation follows the readily available facts and not get caught up in gas-lighting by the mainstream media and some agencies.
I always laugh at articles about censorship, because it’s a game played by EVERY website (except maybe this one).
Fox News, Fox Business, Jonathon Turley’s website, and Elon Musk’s X are some of the WORST censorship sites on the web, AND it’s Trump supporters that get censored by them while they all criticize democrats.
The web is a sick sick joke when it comes to censorship vs “free speech,” and the WORST offenders are sites that pretend to be for free speech. And nobody wants to cover it or report on it.
IRT Bill: Now can a man carrying a rifle a distance finder climbing onto a roof and being in the prone position be a distraction? Now Crooks may well have been a patsy but he is a vital cog in that assassination attempt.
While watching Rumble coverage of Day 2 of the democrat convention as simultaneously reviewed by Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn —
https://rumble.com/v5bqk5p-atw-livestream-democratic-national-convention-day-2.html
— I was keeping an eye on the rolling “live chat” — which often had little or nothing to do with what was happening with the DNC convention OR what Matt & Walter were talking about — and late in the broadcast noticed prolonged references to people (most or all of whom were NOT democrats) stating that they’d been banned by Elon Musk’s X platform.
This issue REALLY needs some investigative-reporter attention. It’s nice to know that I’m not the only Trump supporter banned by ENORMOUS FRAUD and anti-free-speech CLOWN Elon Musk, who appears to now be attempting to con his way into getting a position in the next Trump Administration. I can only hope that Trump accepts his money but NOT his advice or “service.”