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Internet search isn't Google News, there are countless news outlets. Google News is still not radically political leaning and just an aggregator. None that impl

• paganel 7y ago
  The article just mentioned they are blacklisting material based on political views (as far as I can tell the great majority of the censored stuff is right-wing), can’t see how they’re not “politically leaning”. The Republican-led backlash will come back hard on them.
  • reroute1 7y ago
    "Some of the websites Google appears to have targeted in Google News were conservative sites and blogs, according to documents reviewed by the Journal." That is so vague and unsubstantiated. I don't come to that conclusion from looking at this article. How easy is it to replace conservative with liberal? It seems very likely.
  • ceejayoz 7y ago
    > as far as I can tell the great majority of the censored stuff is right-wing Don't mistake the majority of the whining for the majority of the censoring. The left-wing equivalents of Gateway Pundit aren't included in Google News, either (and they shouldn't be, to be clear). You just don't see Democratic Congressional reps complaining about that fact in bad faith.