Microsoft’s Bing Censors Politically-Sensitive Chinese Names in US Searches: Report

Microsoft’s Bing Censors Politically-Sensitive Chinese Names in US Searches: Report
FILE PHOTO: General view of Microsoft Corporation headquarters at Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France, April 18, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo
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Microsoft-owned search engine Bing is targeting politically sensitive Chinese names for censorship in the United States, according to research.

Citizen Lab, a cyber research center at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, found that the censorship applied to Bing’s autosuggestion feature. Moreover, it impacts not only Bing but also the Windows Start menu search and DuckDuckGo, which share this same feature.

Hannah Ng
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Hannah Ng is a reporter covering U.S. and China news. She holds a master's degree in international and development economics from the University of Applied Science Berlin.
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