Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki are seated during the taping of a television program on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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 US 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 Jan 19 hosted by MSNBC and Recode. “We feel a huge sense of responsibility.”
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