Google Has A Striking History Of Bias Against Black Girls

Safiya Noble, Time
Mon, 03/26/2018 - 1:30pm

My first encounter with racism in search was in 2009 when I was talking to a friend who causally mentioned one day, “You should see what happens when you Google ‘black girls.’” I did and was stunned. These are the details of what a search for “black girls” would yield for many years, despite that the words “porn,” “pornography,” or “sex” were not included in the search box.

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