The Google LLC logo featured outside the Google Store Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City, on November 17, 2021, has caught the attention of internet users. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)
Google has announced that it will make some of its top executives available to testify in front of a parliamentary committee.
The company issued a statement indicating that it hopes to cooperate effectively with the heritage committee’s inquiry into Google’s activities after the tech behemoth conducted a five-week experiment that blocked news links to some of its Canadian users.
The testing was intended to determine the effects of a potential reaction to the Liberal administration’s controversial Online News Act, Bill C-18.
Google has confirmed that it will provide the committee with the opportunity to meet with its President of Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer, Kent Walker, as well as its Vice President of News, Richard Gingras.
Earlier this month, both declined a summons from the committee. However, Google acknowledges that the committee members may have additional inquiries, and as a result, the company is willing to comply.