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.
My theory:
Microsoft’s goal was to hide the tank man images, and only the tank man images, from the other image results.
But an engineer, in an act of defiance, made it so that all results would be hidden, making Microsoft’s agenda stupidly obvious, but making it seem like the engineer did it “on accident”.