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November 19, 2018

Amazon’s Algorithmic Anti-Semitism

Simple search queries are good ways to find out about anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

While doing some research on anti-Semitism, Yair Rosenberg plugged the words “history of the Rothschilds” into Amazon’s search engine. The first three books that turned up were works of deranged anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists, prompting Rosenberg to do some further experiments:

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November 19, 2018

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