Will look at accusations over Google, China: Prez

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said early on Tuesday that his administration would investigate accusations that Alphabet Inc's Google worked with the Chinese government.
The president repeated accusations made previously by Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and venture capitalist, that Google worked for the Chinese government. "A great and brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone! The Trump Administration will take a look!" the president wrote on Twitter.
Thiel had called on the FBI and CIA to probe Google on its relations with China, and had alleged that the firm worked with the Chinese military.
Google said: "As we have said before, we do not work with the Chinese military." Thiel, who invested in Facebook Inc soon after its founding, is a director at the firm, which is Google's top rival for online ad spending.
He also is a director at data analytics software firm Palantir Technologies, which, like Google, competes to secure government technology contracts. He has financially backed several Republican politicians at the state and federal level, including Trump.