Developing robust methods for the measurement of online social media populations

2016年6月，令人担忧的证据浮出水面，显示谷歌的搜索引擎是“种族主义的”。争论的焦点是搜索词“三个白人青少年”和“三个黑人青少年”返回的截然不同的图片。之前的搜索返回了青少年运动和闲逛的健康照片。后者退回了面部照片。谷歌为搜索结果进行了辩护，指出他们的搜索算法是由网络内容以及访问和链接的频率决定的。谷歌是一家运行软件的公司，每天有数百万人使用该软件在互联网上查找信息。谷歌断言，他们搜索结果中的任何此类偏见都是“从根本上说是一个社会问题”。

In June 2016, troubling evidence surfaced showing Google’s search engine to be “racist.” At issue were the radically different images returned by the search terms “three white teenagers” and “three black teenagers.” The former search returned wholesome pictures of teenagers playing sports and hanging out. The latter returned mugshots. Google defended the search results, indicating that their search algorithms were informed by web content and the frequency with which it was accessed and linked. Google - the company that runs software used daily by millions of people to find information on the internet - asserted that any such bias in their search results were “fundamentally a societal problem.”