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>>rcoves+(OP)
https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1400906032176640004

A Microsoft spokesperson tells me that "accidental human error" is to blame for missing images of "tank man" on its Bing search results.

"We are actively working to resolve this."

The incident comes on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

>>iso163+xL
There's no way it was accidental. It could have been a rogue employee that pushed something globally that was supposed to be limited to China...but the idea that it was an accident on the anniversary sounds like a made up story.

>>partia+HP
Or it could have been a normal employee that ticked the "censor everywhere" box rather than "censor china"

>>iso163+bR
Of course that makes the assumption that it's known and accepted that Microsoft censor the search "tank man" to some parts of the globe, and the accident is that the censorship applied to a larger than desired scope.

It seems unlikely that you could accidently censor something like this globally without trying to do it for at least one specific target demographic.

It's also plausible that the fault was brought in deliberately by a rogue engineer to raise the subject globally.