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Google Executives Pledge to Scour More Content Ahead of Midterm Elections

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Blomberg

The chief executive officers of Alphabet Inc.’s Google and YouTube pledged to scour videos and other content more closely for misleading news and inappropriate messages on their web services ahead of elections in the U.S later this year.

"We have more elections coming, so we’re all working harder," Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during an interview at an event in San Francisco on Friday hosted by MSNBC and Recode. "We feel a huge sense of responsibility."