Google CEO Sundar Pichai urged employees to ensure their platforms provide reliable election information. This follows accusations of bias from Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who claims Google is suppressing positive news about him. Pichai highlighted Google’s commitment to providing accurate election-related resources and highlighted their global efforts to support elections.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly told Google and YouTube employees ahead of US Election Day to “ensure our platforms provide voters with high-quality and reliable information.” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has accused Google of bias. Trump claimed in September that the search giant only shows “bad stories about him.” Google has refuted these claims.
First reported by The Washing Post, the CEO sent an internal memo to his employee. In the memo obtained by The Verge, Pichai said: “We should be proud of our work, as well as the efforts of our teams, to keep campaigns safe, to deliver accurate information about where and how to vote, and to deliver digital advertising solutions bidding for campaigns.” Pichai also stated that “Al has given us a profound opportunity to make progress” toward making information universally accessible.

Here is Sundar Pichai’s full memo

Hello Googlers,
Tomorrow is Election Day here and many in the US will go to the polls to vote for everything from the school board to the judges, Congress and the president.
Teams at Google and YouTube have been working hard to ensure our platforms provide voters with high-quality and reliable information, just as we have done in so many other elections around the world. Dozens of countries have even held major, heated elections. This year has seen contentious elections from France to India, Britain to Mexico and more, with over a billion people voting in 2024.
We should be proud of our work, as well as the efforts of our teams, to keep campaigns safe, to deliver accurate information about where and how to vote, and to provide digital advertising solutions for campaigns. Thank you to everyone who has been working on these efforts around the clock throughout the campaign season and while votes are being counted.
As with other elections, the outcome will be an important topic of discussion in living rooms and in other places around the world. And of course the outcome will have important consequences.
Whoever voters entrust, let’s not forget the role we play at work, through the products we build and as a company: being a trusted source of information for people of all backgrounds and beliefs. We will and must continue to do so. In that spirit, it is important that everyone continues to follow our Community Guidelines and Personal Political Activity Policy.
After Election Day, our work to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful will continue. Al has given us a profound opportunity to advance that mission, build great products and partnerships, drive innovation and make significant contributions to national and local economies. Our business is at its best when we focus on that.
Thanks, Sundar