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Leaked Video Shows Google Bosses Trying To Console Employees Upset Over Donald Trump’s Election Victory

The video has been posted by far-right news website Breitbart

Caroline Finnegan September 13, 2018

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Google has yet again made it to the headlines courtesy of a leaked video, posted by far-right news website Breitbart, that shows some of the top executives of Google and parent company Alphabet trying to console employees who were not happy with Donald Trump being elected as the President of the United States in November 2016.

The video comes at a time when President Trump has called out for an investigation of social media giants including Facebook and Twitter as well as Google over unfounded claims of bias.

The hour-long video shows a TGIF (Thank God It’s Friday) town hall gathering attended by Google CEO Sundar Pichai, co-founder Sergey Brin, Alphabet chief financial officer Ruth Porat, and some of the other management members including Kent Walker and Eileen Naughton.

While campaigning for the Presidential elections, Trump has always been open about his views on immigrants and refugees. He always openly expressed hostility against immigrants and refugees,

“I know this is probably not the most joyous TGIF we have had,” says Brin, who is an immigrant as well as a refugee, right at the beginning of the session of the video. “As an immigrant and a refugee, I certainly find this election deeply offensive. I know many of you do, too.”

Vice president, Kent Walker described the election results as a big shock.

“It was a shock to all of us, the results of the election. It was a fair and democratic process and we honor that,” Walker said.

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai also addressed the gathering saying that people should have faith in the democratic process.

“There is a lot of fear. It is important to reach out,” Pichai said in the video.

In response to the issue, a Google spokesperson said that none of the comments made in the video indicated that political bias has any influence over how the company’s products are built or designed to perform.