White nationalists seem to have manipulated Google search results for Boasian anthropology

[bluedigger]

Google’s algorithm appears to have been manipulated to deliver a racist, anti-Semitic top result on searches for the term “Boasian anthropology” — a reference to the work of Franz Boas, a German-American anthropologist whose theory of relativism argued against the belief that Western civilization was superior to other cultures.

As of Monday morning, however, the “featured snippet” box displayed at the top of search results read: “Boasian Anthropology is a pseudo-scientific Jewish assault on White European racial consciousness and identity. To put it simply, the Jewish Boasian school of Anthropology suggested wrongly, that 'race was a social construct' not rooted in biology or scientific determinism.” The text is pulled from a link to a 2015 post on “Smash Cultural Marxism,” a white nationalist blog. (Some searches for the term returned a Wikipedia link as the top result by late Monday morning, while others continued to return the misleading snippet.)

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/27/14748690/google-white-nationalist-boasian-anthropology-search-result

There's never a Nazi around to punch when you need one.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Google has become almost useless when searching for

news stories, facts, and stats. There's 2 pages of 'Ads' followed by 4 pages of RW sites.