A Google search for 'Jewish baby strollers' yields anti-Semitic images. An extremist campaign may be

[Behind the Aegis]

A Google search for ‘Jewish baby strollers’ yields anti-Semitic images. An extremist campaign may be to blame.



The Google results are shocking: Do an image search for “Jewish baby strollers” and you’ll see row upon row of portable ovens — an offensive allusion to the Holocaust.

Google says it’s looking into the search results and wants to improve them. But according to researchers, the results may not be an accident. It’s possible that they’re the result of a coordinated extremist campaign on a fringe website to yield those specific images.

The Network Contagion Research Institute, which studies the way hate speech spreads online, located a series of posts on the 4chan message board, dating back to 2017, that purposefully pair images of ovens on wheels with the term “Jewish baby stroller.” There were at least a dozen such images turned up in one search, dating from August and September 2017. That means these results may have been in place for years, even though they drew attention Friday.

Posting that specific term next to the image may have manipulated Google’s search algorithm, such that it promoted those images when users search the term, says Joel Finkelstein, the institute’s director.

“What happens is they trick Google into putting that stuff up top,” Finkelstein said. “They paste the image with the words so that when you search those words, the image comes to the top.”

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Sounds about right for 2020. Some things NEVER fucking change.

[LuvNewcastle]

1. That's fucked up.

I knew before I even saw the pictures that it was going to be something tasteless. "Jewish baby stroller" isn't a term anyone would be searching casually. Anti-Semites think it's so clever to come up with allusions to the Holocaust.

[wnylib]

6. Right. Why would anyone looking for

a baby stroller do a search specifically for a Jewish baby stroller in the first place?

[BigmanPigman]

2. My mouth fell open as I read it.

I look like the village idiot. Unbelievable!

[Solly Mack]

4. Damn.

Sick.

[SylviaD]

5. This was created by 4chan trolls...

They're not anti-semitic, most of them barely know what the Holocaust is.

The majority on 4chan are dumb kids, 14-16 yrs old. They can be referred to as "trolls" or "shitposters".

They have no real political beliefs, but they like spouting offensive speech and images "for the lulz".

They favor Trump because he makes people angry. They like making people angry and getting them to "lose their shit".

Same reason they use racist hate speech and post offensive images like the ones above. Just for fun.

They're not members of the alt-right, they are just dumb kids who are socially isolated. There may be exceptions but I'm talking about 90% of the users on sites like 4chan. Somewhere on that site some moron is posting this very DU thread and LOL-ing at the fact that he got us upset over the Google search results. And others like him are congratulating him. That's their whole point. Best to ignore anything once you hear "4chan" or "8chan". These are sites crawling with shitposting kids.

[uncle ray]

7. I'm sorry, i stopped reading once i read your post title.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. They are antisemitic.

Not knowing what the Holocaust is not a disqualifier for one being an antisemite.

[obamanut2012]

10. Lot of words there to excuse Alt Right social media posters

"...they are just dumb kids who are socially isolated..."

Same excuses used for the HJ, and allll the Fashy kids in America.

JFC just stop.

[C_U_L8R]

8. All this results are from Meme sites.

Maybe Google should exclude them from its search engine.