Trump Caught Google Off Guard with a Bogus Coronavirus Site Announcement

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>What he did say was also almost entirely wrong. There will be a coronavirus testing site, not from Google but from Alphabet sister company Verily. “We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing,” Google tweeted in a statement.

Calling what he said completely bogus is really pushing it. No one from the general public knows who the heck Verily is, so it makes sense to just say Google for shorthand. I'm sure his advisors explained it that way and he repeated it.

He also mentioned 1700 engineers working on it. Honestly I don't know why the website was mentioned at all but since it was it seems wrong to make it appear like Google, with thousands of its engineers, are working to build a site (for everyone) when, in reality, a company with 235 employees that happens to be a subsidiary of Alphabet is building it for the Bay Area.

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