![]() Others referenced (Opens in a new window) DuckDuckGo’s commitment to “unbiased search.” ![]() On Twitter, some users equated the down-ranking to censorship. Still, not everyone is a fan of DuckDuckGo’s decision. (Google News decided to de-rank RT and Sputnik News back in 2017 for allegedly circulating propaganda.) ![]() In addition, Twitter has placed warning labels on tweets linking to Russian state media. Since then, the internet industry has responded by blocking access to Russian state-sponsored media outlets such as RT and Sputnik News for users in the EU. But his tweet comes more than a week after the European Union announced it would ban the “Kremlin’s media machine” for spreading propaganda justifying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Weinberg didn’t elaborate on the decision, or how the down-ranking will work. “At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation,” he added.
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