Microsoft blames ‘error’ for no matching Bing images of Tiananmen ‘tank man’

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Sat, 2021-06-05 03:41

Microsoft Corp. on Friday blamed “accidental human error” for its Bing search engine not showing results for the query “tank man” in the United States and elsewhere after users raised concerns about possible censorship around the Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary.
Users, including in Germany and Singapore, reported Friday that when they performed the search Bing returned the message, “There are no results for tank man.”
Hours after Microsoft acknowledged the issue, the same search returned only pictures of tanks elsewhere in the world.

Images of the Tiananmen Square "tank man" started showing in Microsoft's Bing search engineer hours after critics raised concern over the disappearing images.
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