QOTD: Zoe Lofgren
by digby
You can't make this stuff up:
In an effort to understand how Google search algorithms work, a Democratic congresswoman asked the tech company’s chief executive a simple question: “If you Google the word ‘idiot' under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up. How would that happen? How does search work so that that would occur?”
In the middle of a congressional hearing ostensibly about privacy and data collection, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) seemed to perform that search from the dais. As it turns out, the image results for “idiot” does reveal a page of mostly Trump photos.
Ted Lieu said yesterday that people shouldn't do negative things if they don't want their names associated with them on a google search. The same applies to acting like an idiot.
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