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 by: Anonymous - Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:13 UTC

https://www.rt.com/news/512397-google-blocking-australia-news/

"We're currently running a few experiments that will each reach about one percent of Google search users in Australia to measure the impacts of news businesses and Google search on each other," a spokesman for the company told the Sydney Morning Herald

The article talks just about the legislation that affects google, but what it shows is that google doesn't even try to hide the fact they use search results to change opinion as they wish.

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 by: Anonymous - Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:29 UTC

This is taken from a discussion about Facebook and Twitter, but it applies here as well:

"Private platform. They can do what they want, surely?"
"They can and, increasingly, they will."

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1347234908838756355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1347234908838756355%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F511852-edward-snowden-trump-facebook-ban%2F

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