The Google app sent out a news notification that included an uncensored racial slur, prompting users to “see more.”

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    As Deadline reported, Google pushed out a notification linking to an article with the headline, “How the Tourette’s Fallout Unfolded at the BAFTA Film Award.” The problem was the message appended to the notification, which prompted readers to “see more on n****rs.”

    Google told the paper that its systems “recognized a euphemism for an offensive term on several web pages, and accidentally applied the offensive term to the notification text.”

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