tldr after the beginning of the russian invasion into Ukraine, DuckDuckGo began explicitly down ranking “Russian disinformation”, with the exact definition for “Russian disinformation” not being given
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To be honest, I absolutely agree with them. I read the whole article and I do not see what is wrong with these statements? Russia is flooding the web with disinformation, we need to do something against that. Fuck the conservatives, Fuck Russia in particular, Slava Ukraini!
Weinberg’s tweet announcing the change generated thousands of comments, many of them from conservative-leaning users who were furious that the company they turned to in order to get away from perceived Big Tech censorship was now the one doing the censoring. It didn’t help that the content DuckDuckGo was demoting and calling disinformation was Russian state media, whose side some in the right-wing contingent of DuckDuckGo’s users were firmly on.
DuckDuckGo spokesperson Kamyl Bazbaz told Recode that the decision was simply about doing what a search engine is supposed to do: ensure that users were getting the best results for their searches.
“Sites like RT and Sputnik that deliberately put out false information to intentionally mislead people directly cut against that purpose,” Bazbaz said
Russia is flooding the web with disinformation, we need to do something against that
Giving one person the authority to decide what is Russian disinformation and what isn’t is very dangerous. Isn’t the whole reason why we use the fediverse in order to prevent information being filtered through Big Brother/Big Corps, etc.? I think educating the average person that news sites like RT and Sputnik are owned by a foreign state is a better approach.
Fuck the conservatives, Fuck Russia in particular, Slava Ukraini!
This isn’t me arguing in favor of conservatism or Russian imperialism, and you putting this at the end of your comment makes it seem like you don’t want to have an honest conversation. If it was 2001, I feel like you would be arguing in favor of The Patriot Act because Fuck Terrorists, Fuck Osama in particular, Slava US-led Coalition!
Sites like RT and Sputnik that deliberately put out false information to intentionally mislead people directly cut against that purpose
Why don’t we start delisting Fox News and other conservative media while we are at it? Given that shows like Tucker Carlson have been proven in court to be spreading known lies
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
What happened in 2022?
icegladiator@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
tldr after the beginning of the russian invasion into Ukraine, DuckDuckGo began explicitly down ranking “Russian disinformation”, with the exact definition for “Russian disinformation” not being given archive.is/g2eL9 archive.is/laxkZ
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
To be honest, I absolutely agree with them. I read the whole article and I do not see what is wrong with these statements? Russia is flooding the web with disinformation, we need to do something against that. Fuck the conservatives, Fuck Russia in particular, Slava Ukraini!
icegladiator@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago