[grumdan]

Isn't this only disturbing if one rejects there being an objective distinction between misinformation and information? Sure, there are gray areas, but there are many actors exposing people to indisputably factually false claims, and "false" in this sentence is quite often not a political concept or subjective. The pope didn't endorse Trump. Trump's inauguration crowd was not the largest in history, etc.

Google may be involved in a lot of manipulative things, but trying to distinguish between blatantly incorrect sources of information and the rest does not seem like a shady political motive to me, and there overall goal seems worthwhile to me. Encyclopedias and scientific journals also manipulate what people are seeing and I don't think filtering mechanisms in general are problematic; it depends on how the information is selected, and if this is done through a good process, it can be very beneficial.