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by Kemschumam 2577 days ago
Today was the first day the quality of Google search results pushed me to another search company (duck duck go). I was trying to find info on the Virginia Beach shooting. And every query I tried brought the exact same results. 'Virginia Beach shooting reddit' brought no reddit, only the same ~6 news sources. I wasn't even in a personalized algorithm bubble (using an anonymous browser). The propaganda potential of Google seems to be actualizing rapidly (or maybe just my cognizance of it).
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The reason they did this was fear of attack from the media. You can find dozens of articles saying how Google & Facebook are "promoting the alt-right", the end result being mainstream media sources more promoted than ever. Go figure.

You can see the same thing on YouTube.