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They ended their partnership with Yandex, a Russian search engine, over the war. They also started downplaying Russian search results as a method of preventing
by danjoredd 3y ago
They ended their partnership with Yandex, a Russian search engine, over the war. They also started downplaying Russian search results as a method of preventing misinformation. This led to a bit of controversy because it makes one question, if they are willing to censor over one political issue, what else are they censoring?
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/duckduckgo-yandex-ukraine https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/duckduckgo-yandex-ukraine
- yegg 3y agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36143328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36143328. To be clear, we do not censor. Per the help article referenced above (https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/news-rankings/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne...): "we don’t evaluate or otherwise take into account any potential political bias or leanings of websites in our search result rankings."