Along with terms such as “IMF” and “2012” – for those interested in his global finance work or prospects in next year’s French presidential election – the fourth commonest search offered in French is “dominique strauss kahn juif” (Jewish)…
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The newspaper Le Monde said that a comparison of searches on various language versions of Google revealed that Autocomplete linked Jewishness to politicians far more commonly in France than in other countries.
The same effect occurs on the French version of another major search engine, Yahoo!…
The Le Monde report’s author Stephane Foucart wrote that his findings reflected “a subtle and latent form of anti-Semitism, which seems only to manifest itself when face to face with a computer.”
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