Lawmakers ask Google to fix abortion searches that mislead users to 'anti-abortion fake clinics'
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Some Democratic members of Congress have asked Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to address concerns about Google search and map results for abortion information that are including "anti-abortion fake clinics."
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Lawmakers urge Google to remove misleading results in searches for abortion clinics
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Lawmakers ask Google to stop steering women to ‘fake’ abortion clinics
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Lawmakers ask Google to fix abortion searches that mislead users to 'anti-abortion fake clinics'
Congressional Democrats are urging Google to prevent searches for abortion clinics from returning results and ads that direct users to facilities that oppose the procedure, saying misleading search results on where to get an abortion could put women's health at risk.
A letter from 21 legislators to Google parent company Alphabet cites a study that found 11% of Google searches for abortions in states where abortions could soon become illegal direct people to anti-abortion clinics.
Democratic lawmakers are imploring Google to rejig its search results for abortion clinics to siphon out "misleading" links steering people toward anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.
A recent study found 11% of searches for “abortion near me” or “abortion pill” sent Google users to “fake” abortion clinics, which are known for operating with the goal of talking women out of ending their pregnancies.
Gaming Google's search algorithms is an art form that few have mastered, although many have claimed otherwise. The fact is, those algorithms are proprietary
Some Democratic members of Congress have asked Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to address concerns about Google search and map results for abortion information that are including "anti-abortion fake clinics."
Congressional Democrats wrote to Google’s parent company on Friday to pressure the search engine to suppress results that offer alternatives to abortion.
Several pro-abortion Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Google urging the company to give “accurate” search results pertaining to abortion procedures. The lawmakers specifically ask the search platform to direct
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