Or not so feel good. Rolling with your own experience is the idea to genuinely support local media, or is it to introduce Pravda and Izvestiya? Google has clear

Or not so feel good. Rolling with your own experience is the idea to genuinely support local media, or is it to introduce Pravda and Izvestiya? Google has clear political motivations and has been engaged in an increasingly large number of dubious actions. When this organization now wants to start throwing its weight directly behind news, it's not something I would generally see in a positive light. For example Google has partnered with the New America Foundation which is a think tank that provides input on a wide range of issues through a variety of different groups. When the head of their Open Markets group endorsed and encouraged further government action against monopolistic behavior, following Google's being fined $2.7billion in Europe, they terminated the groups leader and closed the entire division. Google, now having plausible deniability since they were separated from the entity again through a 'partner' - as they now plan to do with the media, claimed they had nothing to do with it. [1] This in many ways makes the "independent" partnerships even more disconcerting. It preemptively sets the stage for plausible deniability, while also working to distance themselves from a publication - even though there's every reason to doubt that distance actually exists in practice. [1] - https://theintercept.com/2017/08/30/google-funded-think-tank-fired-google-critics-after-they-dared-criticize-google/ https://theintercept.com/2017/08/30/google-funded-think-tank...