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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

WN TBD: What Is Google After Larry and Sergey?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On Tuesday, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page announced that they are stepping down from their respective roles as president and CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. The move will leave Sundar Pichai in charge of both Google and Alphabet.    With pressure mounting from unhappy employees, antitrust regulators in Europe, and the Trump administration, Pichai takes the helm at a crucial moment in the company’s history. Will he be up to the task?   Guest: Mark Bergen, technology reporter at Bloomberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There was this moment in the fall of last year,

0:36.3

when executives from three big tech companies were called to testify in front of the Senate.

0:41.1

I'd call this here into order and I'd like to welcome our witnesses today.

0:44.3

They were supposed to talk about the run-up to the 2016 election.

0:47.4

And whether foreigners, mostly Russians, had manipulated their platforms.

0:51.7

Cheryl and Jack, I'm glad you decided to appear.

0:55.1

Jack Dorsey from Twitter showed up, so did Cheryl Sandberg from Facebook.

0:59.4

But Larry Page, who was supposed to be representing Google, wasn't there.

1:04.1

No one from the company came.

1:05.6

I'm disappointed Google decided against sending the right senior level executive to participate.

1:11.1

Senators were kind of performative about it, but they were annoyed.

1:14.4

From Google Search, which continues to have problems surfacing absurd conspiracies,

1:20.9

to YouTube, where Russian back-to-information agents promoted hundreds

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