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by splintercell 1568 days ago
That query is biased to begin with. Let’s say I want to understand the flat earth arguments. Should the search engine fill my feed with “earth is not flat” when I’m trying to search for “proof that earth is flat”. This is different from searching “is earth flat” which is an attempt to discover the truth.

Your claim that the search engine should show results which indicate that there was no systematic election fraud, is a wishful thinking that you don’t want people to believe in it, not a good decision making regarding what search engines should display.

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> Should the search engine fill my feed with “earth is not flat” when I’m trying to search for “proof that earth is flat”.

What should it do? Article titled "There is no proof that the earth is flat" also satisfies the query completely from a keyword perspective, although not from a semantic. But if there is no actual proof that earth is flat, any article claiming there is would satisfy the query only from a keyword perspective but technically not semantically. It is a good question.