Article snippet: Breitbart News senior tech reporter Allum Bokhari revealed in an exclusive report on Wednesday that, despite Pichai’s sworn testimony, Google and YouTube use “blacklists” for “controversial YouTube queries” which contain a list of search terms the Silicon Valley giant considers sensitive. In one instance, YouTube downranked pro-life videos from its top ten search results for “abortion.” Further, Bokhari revealed that Google employs “huge teams” dedicated to the manual intervention of its search results, which serves as an apparent contradiction to Pichai’s sworn testimony. Pichai testified under oath in December before the House Judiciary Committee and assured lawmakers that Google does not “manually intervene on any particular search result.” Sen. Blackburn previously served in the House as one of the largest critics of Silicon Valley bias and has proposed that Congress rein in social media censorship of conservative and alternative viewpoints. Now, the Tennessee conservative serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee as well as the Senate Commerce Committee, both of which have broad jurisdiction over social media and telecom companies. Blackburn told Breitbart News that Pichai’s testimony “was less than truthful” and charged that Internet users should know how the company manipulates its algorithms. “Silicon Valley has a deep-rooted anti-conservative bias. This is not another unfortunate coincidence as Silicon Valley and liberal elites would have us believe. Rat... Link to the full article to read more