Big tech companies have faced no shortage of scrutiny on their influence in politics, especially since 2016 elections. One complaint sometimes levied at Google, for instance, is that search suggestions favor a particular candidate. While the company said that search “does not favor any candidate or cause” during the 2016 elections, now the company has a better solution altogether: just omit search suggestions on election topics altogether. The news shows up as a single sentence blurb under the support page for Google‘s Autocomplete policies, under the ‘Elections related predictions’ header: We don’t allow predictions that could be interpreted as a position for…
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