WF-VX03JZ
Google Search results for 'black girls' and 'three black teenagers' showed pornographic and mugshot images
Google Search returned pornographic results for the query 'black girls' and mugshots for 'three black teenagers', reflecting racial and gender stereotypes. The author, Safiya Noble, documented these results from 2009 to 2016. Google initially denied responsibility but later tweaked its algorithm to change the results. The incident highlights systemic bias in search algorithms.
- Date it happened
- 2009-01-01
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- Google Search
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