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In April 2023, Citizen Lab reported that Bing was more censorious in China than native Chinese search engines.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Myers |first=Steven Lee |date=2023-04-26 |title=China's Search Engines Have More Than 66,000 Rules Controlling Content, Report Says |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/business/china-censored-search-engine.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429155352/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/business/china-censored-search-engine.html |archive-date=April 29, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-29 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chiu |first=Joanna |date=2024-06-27 |title=Microsoft Bing's censorship in China is even "more extreme" than Chinese companies' |url=https://restofworld.org/2024/microsoft-bing-chinese-censorship/ |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=Rest of World |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Child pornography ===

A study released in 2019 of Bing Image search showed that it both freely offered up images that had been tagged as illegal [[child pornography]] in national databases, as well as automatically suggesting via its auto-completion feature queries related to child pornography. This easy accessibility was considered particularly surprising since Microsoft pioneered [[PhotoDNA]], the main technology used for tracking images reported as originating from child pornography.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Constine |first=Josh |date=January 10, 2019 |title=Microsoft Bing not only shows child sexual abuse, it suggests it |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/10/unsafe-search/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220184238/https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/10/unsafe-search/ |archive-date=February 20, 2023 |access-date=February 20, 2023}}</ref> Additionally, some arrested child pornographers reported using Bing as their main search engine for new content.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Keller |first1=Michael H. |last2=Dance |first2=Gabriel J. X. |date=November 9, 2019 |title=Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Other Way |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/09/us/internet-child-sex-abuse.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202200034/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/09/us/internet-child-sex-abuse.html |archive-date=December 2, 2019 |access-date=December 2, 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> Microsoft vowed to fix the problem and assign additional staff to combat the issue after the report was released.

===Privacy===

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 In April 2023, Citizen Lab reported that Bing was more censorious in China than native Chinese search engines.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Myers |first=Steven Lee |date=2023-04-26 |title=China's Search Engines Have More Than 66,000 Rules Controlling Content, Report Says |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/business/china-censored-search-engine.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429155352/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/business/china-censored-search-engine.html |archive-date=April 29, 2023 |access-date=2023-04-29 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chiu |first=Joanna |date=2024-06-27 |title=Microsoft Bing's censorship in China is even "more extreme" than Chinese companies' |url=https://restofworld.org/2024/microsoft-bing-chinese-censorship/ |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=Rest of World |language=en-US}}</ref>
+=== Child pornography ===
+A study released in 2019 of Bing Image search showed that it both freely offered up images that had been tagged as illegal [[child pornography]] in national databases, as well as automatically suggesting via its auto-completion feature queries related to child pornography. This easy accessibility was considered particularly surprising since Microsoft pioneered [[PhotoDNA]], the main technology used for tracking images reported as originating from child pornography.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Constine |first=Josh |date=January 10, 2019 |title=Microsoft Bing not only shows child sexual abuse, it suggests it |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/10/unsafe-search/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220184238/https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/10/unsafe-search/ |archive-date=February 20, 2023 |access-date=February 20, 2023}}</ref> Additionally, some arrested child pornographers reported using Bing as their main search engine for new content.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Keller |first1=Michael H. |last2=Dance |first2=Gabriel J. X. |date=November 9, 2019 |title=Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Other Way |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/09/us/internet-child-sex-abuse.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202200034/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/09/us/internet-child-sex-abuse.html |archive-date=December 2, 2019 |access-date=December 2, 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> Microsoft vowed to fix the problem and assign additional staff to combat the issue after the report was released.
 ===Privacy===