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Line 34: On May 16th, 2013 [[Margaret Hodge MP]], the chair of the [[United Kingdom]] [[Public Accounts Committee]], accused Google of being "calculated and unethical" over [[tax avoidance by Google\|its use of highly contrived and artificial distinctions]] to avoid paying billions of pounds in [[corporation tax]] owed by its UK operations.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/may/16/google-told-by-mp-you-do-do-evil \|date=May 16, 2013 \|title=MP on Google tax avoidance scheme: 'I think that you do evil' \|author=Simon Bowers \|work=the Guardian}}</ref> The company was accused by the committee, which represents the interests of all UK taxpayers, of being "evil" for not paying its "fair amount of tax". She told [[Matt Brittin]], head of Google UK, "I think that you do evil".<ref>{{cite news \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22554548 \|title=Margaret Hodge labels Google tax record 'evil' \|work=BBC News}}</ref> In 2015, the UK Government introduced a new law intended to penalise Google and other large [[multinational corporation\|multinational]] corporations' artificial tax avoidance.<ref>{{cite news \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31942639 \|title=Budget 2015: 'Google Tax' introduction confirmed \|work=BBC News\|date=18 March 2015 }}</ref> Google's alleged uses of multi-platform [[mass surveillance]]<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy-2/ \|title=Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights \|work=Amnesty International\|date=21 November 2019 }}</ref>, search engine results and other technologies to politically censor content visibility<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/dont-be-evil/ \|title=Don’t be evil? In ironic twist, Google steps all over its own motto \|work=The Carolina Journal\|author=Jon Guze\|date=18 January 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/google-search-algorithms-are-not-impartial-they-are-biased-just-ncna849886 \|title=Google search algorithms are not impartial. They can be biased, just like their designers.\|work=NBC News\|author=Noah Berlatsky \|date=21 February 2018 }}</ref>, manipulate public opinion<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.newgeography.com/content/007521-google-whatever-happened-dont-be-evil \|title=Google: Whatever Happened to ‘Don't Be Evil’? \|work=NewGeography.com \|author=Joel Kotkin \|date=24 July 2022 }}</ref>, [[Criticism of Google#Politics\|sway elections]] and shape [[regime change\|regime]]<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/dont-be-evil-googles-soft-power-to-regime-change,10692 \|title=Don't be evil! Google’s soft power to regime change \|work=Independent Australia\|date=7 September 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://nypost.com/2023/05/24/how-google-manipulates-search-to-favor-liberals-and-tip-elections/ \|title=How Google manipulates search to favor liberals and tip elections \|work=New York Post\|author=Miranda Devine \|date=24 May 2023 }}</ref> triggered new protests under the former motto. "Google is evil" according to the "Internet Accountability Project", citing Google swinging as many as 2.6 million votes to [[Hillary Clinton]] in the[[2016 United States presidential election \| 2016 US election]]<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://theiap.org/media/in-the-news/google-is-evil/ \|title=Google is Evil \|work=Internet Accountability Project\|date=16 September 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/google-interfered-elections-41-times-last-16-years-media-research-center-says \|title=Google has ‘interfered’ with elections 41 times over the last 16 years, Media Research Center says \|author=Brian Flood \|work=Fox News\|date=18 March 2024 }}</ref>. In 2015 ''[[The Commercial Appeal]]'' reported that "critics say Google's recent moves belie search giant's motto".<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.commercialappeal.com/business/turning-evil \|title=Turning 'evil': Critics say Google's recent moves belie search giant's motto \|website=The Commercial Appeal \|publisher=[[Journal Media Group]] \|access-date=21 May 2015}}</ref>