Googling “did the Holocaust happen” returns an unsettling answer: A page from the Neo-Nazi website Stormfront titled “Top 10 reasons why the Holocaust didn’t happen.” The page’s place on the Google search results was originally reported by the Guardian on Sunday and picked up by a slew of other sites. On Tuesday afternoon, the site…
In two scathing Guardian articles, this week and last, Carole Cadwalladr outlines how right wing extremists have gamed the Google algorithm in order to present Holocaust denial and vitriolic anti-Semitism as “authoritative” internet responses to “Did the Holocaust happen?” and “Are Jews evil?” In her December 11 “Google is not just a platform” she tells…
— Google has removed some of its search suggestions, including the phrase “are Jews evil,” which had been automatically generated by its search algorithm. As of Monday, the phrase was no longer suggested to a user who typed in only the words “are Jews,” The Guardian reported. Google also removed suggestions for other offensive search…
Israel regularly cites Palestinian television and radio programming for what it says an incitement to violence against the Jewish state. Now, the country’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan is reportedly demanding that Google and Apple remove a game from their app stores that he says encourages attacks on Israeli soldiers. Blasting the game, called “Liyla…
Controversy raged this week over news that the Google Play store had allowed a free mobile game that promised players could “live like a real Jew” at Auschwitz. For the second time in a month, Google’s review process was brought into serious question. But now, the game’s creators have come forward to say that was…
Google Play has withdrawn from its store a mobile game that lets players “experience Auschwitz as a Jew” that has sparked anger in the Jewish community. The app, which was created by a vocational school in Spain, was meant as a parody according to the game’s description. However, the developers also wrote that they support…
The developer of the Google Chrome extension Coincidence Detector, which identifies Jewish individuals and organizations by putting triple parentheses around their names, pulled the application last night after several news reports exposed it to the general public. A Forward reporter was exploring the extension on her laptop in order to better write about it at…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Google Brazil must remove all links to a bar mitzvah video from 2012 that went viral, a Brazilian court ruled. The court in Sao Paulo backed a lawsuit by the parents of Nissim Ourfali, who were seeking to have all the copies of the three-minute video removed from Google-owned YouTube. The…
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