Google Claims It Didn’t Manipulate Search Results for “Islam†and “Muslimâ€
But we have known for well over a year that it did.
September 25, 2018
Now that even President Trump has complained about Google manipulating its search results, the social media giant’s underhanded practices are finally getting some attention. A Fox News report Friday noted that at Google, “internal emails show conversations between employees highlighting a desire to manipulate search results on the heels of President Trump’s controversial travel ban in order to mute conservative viewpoints and push ways to combat the ban.†Google claims that this remained on the level of discussion, and wasn’t implemented, but there is considerable evidence to the contrary.
The emails show that “Google employees suggested ways to ‘leverage’ the search engine to combat what the tech giant staffers considered anti-immigration rhetoric and news.†Specifically, “Google staffers suggested actively countering ‘islamophobic, algorithmically biased results from search terms “Islam,†“Muslim,†“Iran,†etc.’†But all is well, Google would have us believe, because this wasn’t done.
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