Google Publishes Notification Containing Racial Slur

Google apologized on Tuesday after a mobile news notification about a BAFTA Awards outburst by an audience member with Tourette’s outrageously displayed the N-word, which the company said its safety filters failed to block. Google said its system misrecognized a euphemism on several web pages and accidentally applied the offensive term to the alert, removed the notification, and is working to prevent recurrence; it said the error did not involve AI.