{"id":253506,"date":"2021-09-16T14:47:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=253506"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:55:29","slug":"sen-josh-hawley-google-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sen-josh-hawley-google-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Josh Hawley to Google over pro-life censorship: Stop the anti-life bias"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On September 15, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding answers for the tech giant’s censorship of pro-life ads. According to a press release<\/a>, Hawley’s letter specifically referenced Google’s recent removal of Live Action’s abortion pill reversal ads<\/a>, citing alleged ‘unreliable claims’ and ‘misleading content.’ Hawley also mentioned Google’s removal of pregnancy care center ads by Choose Life Marketing, a pro-life marketing organization based out of his home state.<\/p>\n

In the letter<\/a>, Hawley wrote,\u00a0“When I spoke with Mark Zuckerberg about a similar issue in September 2019, he acknowledged the danger of bias on the parts of content reviewers in this area, particularly where pro-life activist groups like Live Action are concerned.” The letter continued, “But if your company\u2019s behavior is any indication, those concerns have gone unaddressed. Rather, your company appears to have taken a page out of the progressive left playbook and has started targeting pregnancy resource centers and pro-life activist organizations for disfavor.”<\/p>\n

“This would not be the first time that political considerations have influenced your company\u2019s ad eligibility decisions,” Hawley pointedly observed.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Senators demand answers from Google following Live Action censorship<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hawley listed multiple action item questions for Pichai to address. Among them:<\/p>\n