News that Chicago police charged
Jussie Smollett with staging a brutal attack on himself was covered on every
network and in every major newspaper, but Google is hiding searches of it from
its platform due to concerns of "potentially disparaging" the liberal
actor.
A review of Google's autocomplete
function on searches of Smollett found no references to anything regarding the
hate crime, even though the company's own data show it is the only reason his name
was ever searched.
The top suggested searches for
Smollett included Empire (a show he no longer has a role in), Mighty Ducks (a nearly
three-decade old movie he had a small role in as a child), and his wife (who
doesn't exist), the Free Beacon found.
Even with a nudge—adding the letter
"H" to indicate an interest in the Smollett "hate crime" or
"hoax"—the top suggestions were inquiries into his height and ties to
Hawaii.
Full report including potential bias in searches re: Hillary's campaign, the Trump presidency, Harvey Weinstein, and the Covington students is here ; the report includes screen shots of the writer’s search results. H/T
Don Surber.
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