I don’t know if I’m paranoid, but it is so much harder for me to find links for things I’ve seen to share with people.

Googling “Zelensky blonde hair blue eyes bbc” did not bring up anything referencing his sick comments. Only when I added “Twitter” did I find tweets that had clipped it.

I’m not able to find anything about Yemen being attacked recently and the most recent news says that Yemen launched a rocket.

Am I conspiracy-brained, are there just not any sources reporting on anything inconvenient to Western hegemony, or are they being buried by the algorithm?

  • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Yes. It has been getting harder to google things, but I do not think it is intentional. Like the other day I spend a lot of time trying to find a simple image with a transparent background that isn't on Pinterest or some platform that tries to get you to subscribe. Basically a lot of the internet has been taken over by platforms that dedicate a considerable amount of time to some form of SEO, that makes looking up meaningful results more difficult.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That and Google's changes to the way it's rankings work and how it prioritises content has slanted it heavily towards news media instead of discussion or first sources.