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Google liberally sprinkled "state sponsored" tags around not that long ago in an attempt to sow skepticism of international news sources.

I thought their new-found ans self-appointed journalistic authority hubris at best and, more likely, an act of state-sanctioned retaliation. Perhaps it was even pay to play, or a quid pro quo to show they were cabinet material.

If anyone gave Google flack for this, it was buried by their truth orthodoxy squads under the guise of "algorithms".