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Google Instant's Allegedly 'Anti-Semitic' Results Lead To Lawsuit In France

Occurred
Jan 5, 2012
Published
Jan 5, 2012
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

The organizations SOS Racisme, Union of Jewish Students of France, Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Among Peoples are suing Google due to its autocomplete software suggesting "jewish" when the names of certain public figures were searched on the platform.

Developers

  • Google

Deployers

  • Google

Harmed parties

  • Jewish people
  • Jewish public figures

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 95%

Rationale: Lawsuit filed over discriminatory autocomplete suggestions targeting Jewish individuals.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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