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Linking gone wild: Yahoo's news software invited readers to browse photos of underage girls

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Aug 3, 2008 9:28 PM EDT
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It wasn't what anyone expected to see while perusing a news article.

But there, in the final paragraph of an online story about the call girl involved in the Eliot Spitzer scandal, Yahoo's automated system was inviting readers to browse through photos of underage girls.

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