Online activists flood Google search results for ‘idiot’ with images of Trump

Online activists flood Google search results for ‘idiot’ with images of Trump

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https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/7/20/17595584/google-search-results-idiot-donald-trump-images-reddit

If you Google image search “idiot” right now, you’ll find images of President Donald Trump. Online activists, in protest of Trump’s policies regarding unauthorized immigrants and members of the LGBTQ community, among others, are pushing his portraits to the top by manipulating the search engine’s ranking algorithm, as first reported by The Guardian earlier this week.

The association between Trump and the word “idiot” was partly sparked by London protesters’ choice of the Green Day song “American Idiot” during the president’s English visit. But Redditors have also jumped on the bandwagon and upvoted posts of Trump with the word “idiot,” which encouraged Google’s search algorithms to associate the two together.

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