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More Racist Google Maps Results Discovered This Week

Friday, May 22, 2015 7:42
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21st Century Wire says…

As we reported earlier this week, the disturbing trend of “third party digital vandalism” has seen Google Maps being overrun with a number of racist and otherwise unpleasant pranks.

After further research by The Switch, other examples have since turned up – more evidence of America’s declining culture perpetrated by those who seek to ruin the internet…

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If you search for the N-word on Google Maps, you get the White House.

You also get Howard University, a historically black institution, and the Capitol building.

Discovered by users, these are the latest in a string of racist search results involving a highly charged slur for African-Americans. If you start off with Google Maps zoomed into Washington, D.C., searches for “f*** n******” points you to the U.S. Capitol.

Meanwhile, recent Howard grad Bomani X said Wednesday that searches for “n***** university” on Google Maps redirects to Howard.

The N-word isn’t the only epithet that produces Google results. A reader pointed out to us that “c**n house” will redirect to the White House, as well.

This all began on Tuesday, when readers noticed that searching for “n***** king” led to the White House — an apparent insult against President Obama.

What happens when you perform a nasty search on Google Maps.

(…) The errors are likely the result of other users submitting changes to Google Maps…

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