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Exclusive: Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even “more extreme” than Chinese companies’.
New Citizen Lab study comes as U.S. lawmakers scrutinize Microsoft’s willingness to comply with demands from Beijing.
Bing’s censorship rules in China are so stringent that even mentioning President Xi Jinping leads to a complete block of translation results, according to new research by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab that has been shared exclusively with Rest of World. Following a Bloomberg report in March, which cited Microsoft insiders acknowledging an inclination to “overfilter” China-based search results, U.S. senator Mark Warner called for Bing’s withdrawal from China. Benjamin Fung, a McGill University professor and expert on AI and cybersecurity technology, said Microsoft appears to be playing it safe to avoid Chinese government backlash.
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