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Racist slur repeated in Google notifications on BAFTA N-word scandal

Mashable·@Mashable·2 months ago
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Google officials apologized after the company sent out push notifications about Sunday’s BAFTA controversy that included a spelled-out racist slur. The notification linked to a *Hollywood Reporter* article about the BAFTA film awards and included the following text: "See more on [anti-Black slur]," according to *Hollywood Reporter* sister publication *Variety* and screencaps shared on X. Google officials told *Variety* that the notifications went out only to a small group of people who receive push notifications, and that AI was not to blame for the error. Instead, Google blamed its safety filters, which did not trigger when it "recognized a euphemism for an offensive term on several web pages and accidentally applied the offensive term to the notification text." The search giant apologized on Tuesday, with a spokesperson saying, "We’re deeply sorry for this mistake.…

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