Amazon, Google and Wish have eliminated neo-Nazi and white-supremacist products being sold on their platforms following an investigation by BBC Click.
White-supremacist flags, neo-Nazi books and Ku Klux Klan merchandise were all offered for sale.
Algorithms on Amazon and Dream also advised other white-supremacist products.
All 3 companies informed the BBC that racist items were prohibited on their platforms.
Oren Segal from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an anti-hate organisation, stated the business required to “constantly be on top of what the algorithm is advising”.
He stated algorithms had to be “taught to be responsible”.
Among the items discovered for sale on Amazon was a white-supremacist flag including a Celtic Cross.
The ADL said the image included on the flag was “among the most common white-supremacist signs”
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A white supremacist flag was sold on Amazon.
One consumer had actually left a “evaluation” of the product in June, stating: “This is a neo-Nazi flag. Amazon needs to not be benefiting from this.”
Nevertheless, another reviewer said the flag would be “helpful for use in parades” and thanked Amazon for “making it happen”.
Amazon’s algorithms suggested another questionable flag that buyers had actually “regularly bought together”.
Both signs were used by the Christchurch gunman when he killed 51 people in 2019.
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