Google Announces Plans to Cut Ties With ALEC
Google plans to sever its relationship with the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council following a wave of public scrutiny about the conservative group’s climate-change views.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt indicated in an interview Monday with NPR’s Diane Rehm that Google would drop its ALEC membership “in the future,” but did not specify a date.
“We funded them as part of a political [campaign] of something unrelated,” Schmidt said in response to a caller asking if Google “is still supporting” the influential conservative organization. “I think the consensus within the company was that that was some sort of mistake, and so we’re trying to not do that in the future.”
Rehm then asked Schmidt why Google first involved itself with ALEC.
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