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by nobody9999 67 days ago
>Now if you search for the USS Liberty, you get no results and instead a hardcoded link to a 'holocaust museum' website as the only result.

That's a lie. A search[0] shows these as the first three results:

USS Liberty incident - Wikipedia [1]

USS Liberty incident | Facts, Deaths, & Investigation | Britannica [2]

'We're Fed Up With It': Survivors of the USS Liberty Look for Answers [3]

In fact, the entire first page (and much of the second) of search results are specifically about the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. There are no links to the Holocaust Museum anywhere to be found. Did you make up that lie yourself, or are you just blindly parroting what others tell you to believe?

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=USS+Liberty&ia=web

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

[2] https://www.britannica.com/event/USS-Liberty-incident

[3] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/08/were-fed-it-s...

Edit: Apparently (or at least that was claimed here[4]), GP was referring to searches on TikTok, not general web searches. I can neither confirm nor deny as I don't use that cesspit (or any other of those odious sewers). If it is true, it's just another good reason not to use that dumpster fire.

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792757

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> That's a lie. A search[0] shows these as the first three results:

> [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=USS+Liberty&ia=web

Hmmm.

Someone with the barest modicum of honesty might have noticed that the comment above you was talking about searching on TikTok, not on DuckDuckGo.

Oops. Missed that part.

Not dishonesty, just carelessness.

Since I'm old and don't use TikTok, I have no way to confirm or deny the results of searches on TikTok.

If what GP claims (I doubt it) is true, that's certainly a problem and another reason why folks shouldn't use an entertainment platform to get their news.

>If what GP claims (I doubt it) is true

Here's a screenshot someone took of a TikTok search for "the uss liberty" https://x.com/hayasaka_aryan/status/1963236545231527957

I'd note that the link you posted is from September, 2025. Before any sale was made.

What's more, the screenshot clearly shows that there's more beneath that message that's been cut off. I wonder what those results were?