Unsafe Search: Why Google’s SafeSearch function is not fit for purpose

Unsafe Search: Why Google’s SafeSearch function is not fit for purpose

Understanding the ways in which hate permeates through the online space is not easy. Generally designed for profit, search engines and social media platforms tend to be sensitive about probes – academic or otherwise – of their systems for commercial reasons. Organisations like ours and the Woolf Institute are forced to find new ways to explore platforms, capture and analyse data or to define the harms that we find.