Last night for a period of time, if you searched for [democratic party] or similar searches, the knowledge panel showed a rat as the symbol of the party, not the official donkey. Google fixed the issue after a couple hours but this just shows how certain knowledge panels are hard to protect from vandalism in Google search.
Here is a screen shot from @jimboot:
Here is what it looks like now:
Danny Sullivan from Google said last night the company is aware and taking action:
Yes, we’re aware and taking action under our policies for such cases, as covered here: https://t.co/EfArCJGJ3T
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) March 16, 2020
This isn’t too common but shows how it can happen from time to time. It use to happen a lot more often.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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