Incidents Harmed By

Incident 1927 Reports
Sexist and Racist Google Adsense Advertisements

2013-01-23

Advertisements chosen by Google Adsense are reported as producing sexist and racist results.

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Incident 1811 Reports
Gender Biases of Google Image Search

2015-04-04

Google Image returns results that under-represent women in leadership roles, notably with the first photo of a female "CEO" being a Barbie doll after 11 rows of male CEOs.

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Incident 5910 Reports
Gender Biases in Google Translate

2017-04-13

A Cornell University study in 2016 highlighted Google Translate's pattern of assigning gender to occupations in a way showing an implicit gender bias against women.

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Incident 139 Reports
High-Toxicity Assessed on Text Involving Women and Minority Groups

2017-02-27

Google's Perspective API, which assigns a toxicity score to online text, seems to award higher toxicity scores to content involving non-white, male, Christian, heterosexual phrases.

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