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No, I think that you are wrong. That law that you mention requires only to publish news from officially registered media. At that moment there were officially
by codedokode 5y ago
No, I think that you are wrong.
That law that you mention requires only to publish news from officially registered media. At that moment there were officially registered not-pro-Putin media that could be used as a source (for example, covering anti-government protests, trial on Navalny and so on), but Yandex preferred to tune the algorithm so that it chooses news from pro-Putin media for the homepage that is seen by millions of people.
Yandex chose to become a propaganda outlet. Some of the news that they re-publish from propaganda media are very low quality and, I think, even violate Yandex's own rules. If you understand Russian, read this headline for example: [1]. For those, who don't understand Russian, the headline contains the word "shit" while describing (with rejoice) how Lyubov Sobol was denied to take part in Moscow State Duma elections. There was no law requiring Yandex to accept such publications for their news aggregator, but they accepted it.
[1] https://newssearch.yandex.ru/news/search?text=%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%B2+%D1%88%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5+%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0 https://newssearch.yandex.ru/news/search?text=%D0%B1%D0%BB%D...
- aasasd 5y agoHmm, I looked into the law, and you seem to be right. Not sure now why the law was treated as the end of ‘independent’ Yandex News back then—though of course it was obvious that the gov wanted to control it and did everything it could think of, to that end. Personally I stopped paying attention to YN after that. Rukipedia even has a section on incidents suggesting both manual fiddling with the YN output and the government's stuffing of it: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Яндекс.Новости#Критика https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Яндекс.Новости#Критика As for the example you cite: if it was found just in the ‘news search’, then it's possibly not from a source ‘certified’ for appearing in the main news feed—from what I've read, it seems that the search includes many more sources than the feed, and is possibly not regulated by that law.
- codedokode 5y agoThis source is a "partner" of Yandex News [1]. Yandex has rules for "partners", and one of the requirements is "quality of headers" [2], although as we see, Yandex doesn't care much about it. [1] https://yandex.ru/news/smi?name=%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%20Online https://yandex.ru/news/smi?name=%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%... [2] https://yandex.ru/support/news/info-for-mass-media.html https://yandex.ru/support/news/info-for-mass-media.html