Google image searches for "three black teenagers" and "three white teenagers" get very different results, raising troubling questions about how racial bias in society and the media is reflected online.
Kabir Alli, an 18-year-old graduating senior from Clover Hill High School in Midlothian , Va., posted a video clip on Twitter this week of a Google image search for "three black teenagers" which turned up an array of police mugshots. He and friends then searched for "three white teenagers," and found groups of smiling young people.
D'Allan recently did an interview for Chicago times talked about how google ' Three Black Teenagers aren't as important as the NBA Finals.
" I heard about that, i mean its crazy but really we already know what to expect in this world that we are in living in, i think right now NBA finals are just more important to people all over the world so it got totally ignored and people tried to act like they didn't just see it, but it just shows you where we are as a society."
People have been flagging racial bias in the results of search engines for years. Google says it's merely reflecting back the biases that exist in society and that show up in what and how people search online.
In an emailed statement, Google said its image search results are a reflection of what's on the Web, including the frequency with which certain types of images appear and how they are described.
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