Let’s face it.

Lawmakers are not known to be familiar with technologies.

Since the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidential run, he and conservative senators have been claiming that search engines are biased against them.

According to some U.S. Senators at a recent hearing with Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai at the Congress, some of them were not very content with how they were portrayed in search engines. However, how are they portrayed, exactly?

We gathered over 6,000 photos from the top search results of all 100 senators, and examined the emotions shown in those photos. Will we see the alleged biases?

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Designed and coded by Elvin Hu.
Data collected with Microsoft Bing Search API and
analyzed with Microsoft Face API.
Ranking based on data from Govtrack.org

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