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A cache corruption bug? Of exactly this guy, and nobody else in that carousel, at exactly that time? At a company that has decades of experience of serving data
by thu2111 6y ago
A cache corruption bug? Of exactly this guy, and nobody else in that carousel, at exactly that time? At a company that has decades of experience of serving data from huge datasets without corruption?
There are really only two plausible explanations here.
The first is that some employee with KG access went rogue and blacked out Churchill because they're an idiot.
The second is that the process for selecting the image of such people is entirely automated - probably pulling from Wikipedia - and the mass orgy of USSR-style history erasure has affected one of the input data sources in such a way that the algorithm bailed out or didn't know what to do.
Given Danny Sullivan's apparently sincere answer that they don't currently know what happened, my guess is it's probably the latter. If it was an employee deleting it then an audit trail would probably have been left or said employee would have admitted to it and they'd know already.
But sorry, to believe that this is caused by anything other than BLM hard-left historical revisionism is very naive. That's not how computers work.