In the last couple of days, a troubling trend on Google has come to light: For some reason, anti-Republican sentiment keeps finding its way into the search engine’s supposedly unbiased “knowledge panel.” For several days, Google told users that among the ideologies connected to California’s Republican Party is “Nazism.” Now, the world’s dominant search engine has been forced to apologize for labeling a Republican state senator a “BIGOT.”
On Thursday, reporter Colin Campbell pointed out a disturbing image posted by Google in its “knowledge panel” mini-bio on Republican North Carolina Sen. Trudy Wade:
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