Microsoft Bing Still Censoring Tiananmen Square Image Searches

• Microsoft search engine Bing is censoring image searches around the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
• Images of the infamous “tank man” and autocomplete suggestions weren’t being shown to users.
• Microsoft claimed it was a “human error,” but image searches still appeared to be missing results hours later.
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Microsoft-owned search engine Bing was not displaying any image results to US users who searched for the term “tank man” on Friday, and it appeared to be down-ranking some image searches for other terms related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

“This is due to an accidental human error and we are actively working to resolve this,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Insider.

But hours later, the search engine still appeared to be filtering out images of China’s violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests, as well as hiding autocomplete suggestions referencing the event.

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