Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The search engine DuckDuckGo has begun penalizing sites linked to “Russian disinformation” amid the Russia–Ukraine war, according to the company’s CEO.
“Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create,” Gabriel Weinberg, the CEO, wrote on social media.
“At DuckDuckGo, we’ve been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation,” he added.
DuckDuckGo is an alternative to Google that has been growing in popularity in recent years in part because it doesn’t track users. Weinberg has in the past promised “unbiased results” as part of his pitch to people to switch from Google.
Some users quickly questioned the CEO’s update, including Tom Fitton, president of the Judicial Watch nonprofit.
Who decides what is disinformation and what isn't? The government? CNN?
Sadly this is probably just the start and more things will be added to the disinformation target.
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John Steed said:
( March 12th, 2022 @ 11:24 am )
DuckDuckGONE. Those who run DuckDuckGo are liberals, but until now have been honest and objective with their search engine. Now they are becoming unreliable politicized propagandists, just like Google. I like the privacy features of DuckDuckGo, but if they are politicizing their search results like Google has done for a long time, then an alternative is needed. So far Bing has not done that, although they like Google sell your data. Brave is just starting a search engine, which is supposed to be private and non-political.
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