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Google Image Showed Racially Biased Results for “Professional” Hairstyles
Google Image search reportedly showed disparate results along racial lines, featuring almost exclusively white women for “professional hairstyles” and black women for “unprofessional hairstyles” prompts.
- Date it happened
- 2016-04-05
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