Google Claims it Didn’t Manipulate Search Results for “Islam” and “Muslim”

09/25/2018

But we have known for well over a year that it did. The emails show that "Google employees suggested ways to 'leverage' the search engine to combat what the tech giant staffers considered anti-immigration rhetoric and news." Specifically, "Google staffers suggested actively countering 'islamophobic, algorithmically biased results from search terms "Islam," "Muslim," "Iran," etc.'" But all is well, Google would have us believe, because this wasn't done.