Another post-Trump FUD piece about tech companies. Urgent call to "fix" something that has been broken for many years and no one in the media minded one bit. F

Another post-Trump FUD piece about tech companies. Urgent call to "fix" something that has been broken for many years and no one in the media minded one bit. Firstly, I don't get many of the mentioned autocomplete results, so the very premise of the author (that Google actively peddles this stuff to neutral, well-meaning users) is made-up. Go into private window mode, try it for yourself. No, really. Secondly, if you do search for "are X evil" you will get what you asked for: conspiracy websites and low-grade propaganda. This is not restricted to the few Xs cherry-picked in the article. If you query is shaped for getting biased results, why shouldn't you? That's the whole point of search engines. This is not to say that Google is doing a great job at filtering out SEO-d garbage. It's been getting worse in this regard for the last decade. But the article's "analysis" is awful. It jumps around, it anchors, it uses name-dropping. (Ironically, they name-drop China, which indeed "solved" the problem with bad search results.)