On Saturday, The News Observer out of North Carolina reported that a Google search for Republican state Senator Trudy Wade was returning a photo of the senator in the Knowledge Panel (the box on the right hand side of the search results) that had the word “bigot” on it. After the story made national news, Google apologized, and said this photo was showing up because the engine was grabbing a photo posted by a man named Matt Comer. This all happened just a few days after Google was criticized for including the word “nazism,” under the “Ideology” description in…

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