Description: Google's Image search for "Jewish baby strollers" showed offensive, anti-Semitic results, allegedly a result of a coordinated hate-speech campaign involving malicious actors on 4chan.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Google developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Jewish people and Google Images users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1057
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2017-08-15
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
(JTA) — The Google results are shocking: Do an image search for “Jewish baby strollers” and you’ll see row upon row of portable ovens — an offensive allusion to the Holocaust.
Google says it’s looking into the search results and wants to im…
The anti-Semitic movement has been on the rise coordinated by an online group named ‘raid’. They operate by manipulating the google image search engine results by attaching abusive images tagged with innocent keywords which in turn, shows t…
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