A cushion with a portrait of Churchill is seen on the cladding around his statue as members of far right groups gather in Parliament Square, central London on June 13, 2020, in the aftermath of the death of unarmed black man George Floyd in police custody in the US. Britain’s WWII prime minister has become engulfed in controversy after a Black Lives Matter protest in central London last weekend led to his statue being defaced with the word ‘racist’. — AFP
LONDON: Google said on June 14 it would explore why the picture of Britain’s World War II leader Winston Churchill disappeared from a top search results list of former UK prime ministers, during controversy over his record on racism.
The search giant said the photo’s removal from its horizontal list atop search results for former British premiers was due to an automatic update and “not purposeful”, but apologised “for any concern”.
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