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Google apologizes for labeling NC state senator as a 'bigot' in search results
Google has apologized to Republican North Carolina state Sen. Trudy Wade for an old photo of her with the superimposed word ‘bigot’ in capital red letters that appeared on the search engine’s results related to the senator’s name.
Link to tweet
A story published by Vice about the photo, which was then distributed by media aggregator Drudge, prompted the apology from Google on Friday.
“We apologize to Senator Wade that this image appeared in the Knowledge Panel in Search,” Google said in a tweet.
“Images that appear in the Knowledge Panel are either selected by verified users or are automatically sourced from sites across the web.”
Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article212403734.html