A ‘Sexist’ Search Bug Says More About Us Than Facebook
A ‘Sexist’ Search Bug Says More About Us Than Facebook
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 25, 20197m 12s
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Show Notes
Just before Valentine’s Day last week, Belgian security researcher Inti De Ceukelaire noticed something strange on Facebook. He found the social network’s search function treated pictures of men and women in dramatically different ways. Searching for “photos of my female friends” returned a hodgepodge of images, whereas a similar search for “photos of my male friends” yielded no results.
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