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   Google came under fire on Thursday after an error in its Knowledge   
   Panel listed "Nazism" as the ideology of the California Republican   
   Party.   
      
   The error, which was first spotted by political strategist Eric   
   Wilson, showed  "Nazism" alongside other ideologies such as   
   “Conservatism,” "Market liberalism,” “Fiscal conservatism,” and “Green   
   conservatism.”   
      
   The error showed up in Google's Knowledge Panel, which pulls   
   information from various sources from across the web, including   
   Wikipedia.   
      
   "Google should apologize for labeling Republicans nazis," Wilson   
   tweeted. Wilson is the founder of LearnTestOptimize, which describes   
   itself as "a community platform for professionals working at the   
   intersection of marketing, technology, and politics."   
      
   The error has since been fixed, but not before House Majority Leader   
   Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., slammed the company over the error.   
      
   "Sadly, this is just the latest incident in a disturbing trend to   
   slander conservatives," McCarthy wrote. "These damaging actions must   
   be held to account. #StopTheBias"   
      
   The news was first reported by Vice News.   
      
   When reached for comment, a Google spokesperson told Fox News the   
   error was likely the result of vandalism on one of its sources.   
      
   "This was not the result of any manual change by anyone at Google. We   
   don't bias our search results toward any political party. Sometimes   
   people vandalize public information sources, like Wikipedia, which can   
   impact the information that appears in search," the spokesperson said   
   via email.   
      
   The spokesperson continued: "We have systems in place that catch   
   vandalism before it impacts search results, but occasionally errors   
   get through, and that's what happened here. This would have been fixed   
   systematically once we processed the removal from Wikipedia, but when   
   we noticed the vandalism we worked quickly to accelerate this process   
   to remove the erroneous information.”   
      
   A Wikimedia spokesperson confirmed to Fox News that the vandalism   
   Google was pulling "was not visible to Wikipedia readers in the text   
   of the article, and has been removed by volunteer editors."   
      
   "The success of Wikipedia relies on everyone being able to contribute,   
   and that includes correcting information," the spokesperson said via   
   email. "Anyone can edit Wikipedia based on our core principles of   
   neutrality and reliable sourcing, and hundreds of thousands of   
   volunteers do this every month. This process is critical to   
   Wikipedia’s constantly-evolving record of the world’s knowledge.   
   Wikipedia editors, often using monitoring tools to support their work,   
   catch and revert most vandalism made to Wikipedia within minutes."   
      
   Silicon Valley has come under fire in recent months for being seen as   
   suppressing conservative voices, including from some senior members of   
   the Republican party.   
      
   During his testimony in front of Congress, Facebook CEO Mark   
   Zuckerberg was grilled by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, about the company's   
   "pervasive pattern of bias and political censorship," pointing to a   
   recent incident with Fox News Channel contributors Diamond and Silk   
   who were temporarily banned from the platform.   
      
   In response to Cruz's question, Zuckerberg said that Diamond and   
   Silk's ban was an error. “In that specific case, our team made an   
   enforcement error and we have already gotten in touch with them to   
   reverse it,” Zuckerberg said.   
      
   The tech exec also noted that he was concerned about political bias in   
   the tech industry, and he has tried to root that out at Facebook.   
      
   A source familiar with Google's thinking noted that its systems are   
   designed to detect if their information services have been vandalized.   
      
   "These generally work well, but aren't perfect," the source said, and   
   when the company is alerted of an error, it is fixed.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/05/31/google-under-fire-for-lis   
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