Google Blocks Search Suggestions to Stop Election Misinformation
- Executive warns ‘benign predictions’ may get caught by changes
- Company to focus on claims for or against candidates, parties
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Google said it will block some autocomplete search suggestions to stop misinformation spreading online during the U.S. presidential election in November.
The autocomplete feature of the world’s largest search engine regularly recommends full queries once users begin typing words. The company said on Thursday it will remove predictions that could be interpreted as claims for or against any candidate or political party.