Google Listed ‘Nazism’ As An Ideology Of The California Republican Party

I just read an article from Politico titled, “California Republicans hit rock bottom.” The article talks about how California Independents now outnumber California Republicans, essentially making the California Republican Party a sad little third party.

In the culmination of the withered state GOP’s long slide toward near-political irrelevance here, new voter registration data released this week show the once-robust party trails behind both Democrats and “no party preference” in the nation’s most populous state. The California Republican Party is now outnumbered by independent voters by 73,000, according to Political Data Inc., which tabulates voter file data from county registrars.

California has 19 million registered voters. About 8.4 million (44.6 percent) identify as Democrats, 4,771,984 (25.1 percent) identify as Republicans and 4,844,803 (25.5 percent) don’t identify with either party.

Gee. I wonder why that is? It’s almost as if there are outside forces influencing everyone’s view of Republicans. I’M TALKING TO YOU GOOGLE.

As it turns out, Google has been listing “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party.

Less than one week before the California primary, Google is listing “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party.

In the “knowledge panel” that provides easy access to information next to search results, Google lists “Nazism” as an “ideology” of the party. The word “Nazism” is hyperlinked to a secondary page that shows “Nazism” alongside other “ideologies” of California Republicans like “Conservatism,” “Market liberalism,” “Fiscal conservatism,” and “Green conservatism.”

California voters have been casting their absentee ballots for weeks ahead of the next Tuesday’s statewide primary elections which will help determine the majority in the House of Representative and the potential next Governor of the world’s fifth largest economy.

See?

This is such a load of BULL.

“It is disgraceful that the world’s largest search engine has labeled millions of California Republicans as Nazis,” California’s Rep. Kevin McCarthy said. “This is just the latest incident in a disturbing trend to slander conservatives. These damaging actions must be held to account. The bias has to stop.”

But will it? I doubt it.

It’s no wonder some people who would MAYBE identify as a Republican are running in the opposite direction. Who wants to be associated with Nazism?

Thanks Google. Thanks SO MUCH for lying to everyone.

You should know that Google removed that specific result, but only after it was caught by VICE News.

It’s unclear how long Nazism has been listed under the ideology section and whether it got their via automation, a third-party trickster, or a Google employee gone rogue. Google removed the listing soon after being contacted by VICE News.

Even if it was done by a “rogue employee” or whatever, the fact of the matter remains. Google didn’t remove it until VICE badgered them about it.

Google’s “knowledge panels” are automatically populated from a variety of sources, including Wikipedia. “Sometimes people vandalize public information sources, like Wikipedia, which can impact the information that appears in search,” a Google spokesperson said, in a statement. “We have systems in place that catch vandalism before it impacts search results, but occasionally errors get through, and that’s what happened here.”

The spokesperson stressed that the “Nazism” listing was not due to any manual change by any Google employee and that the company does not manipulate search results to favor any political ideology over another.

Do you buy it?

h/t VICE News