> we’ve been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation > In reality we never censored anything, nor do we have a d

> we’ve been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation > In reality we never censored anything, nor do we have a disinformation/"truth" detector Sorry, those are conflicting statements. I cannot determine which of the two statements are true. I assume filtering search spam is complicated. I can believe the narrative where Russian disinformation actually resulted in what you call more "news spam" (i.e. news sites that have recently gamed their own search rank). But it genuinely felt like you wanted to affect the war, and your leverage was "suppress Russian lies", which incidentally suppresses everyone's perception of what's going on. Not even Switzerland was neutral in the invasion of Ukraine, so I understand the incentives. But you can't both support politically motivated filtering and claim to be neutral. Let's say the real purpose was always to reduce "news spam", and Russia increased their news spam when invading Ukraine. Let's say both DuckDuckGo's search quality and trustworthiness depends on being mostly neutral. Given your feedback in this thread, I'll continue to recommend DuckDuckGo to friends. And I'll continue to use Kagi myself for now. :-)