"Jewish Baby Strollers" Provided Anti-Semitic Google Images, Allegedly Resulting from Hate Speech Campaign

August 15, 2017

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.

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Alleged deployer: Google
Alleged developer: Google
Alleged harmed parties: Jewish Google users, Google users

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