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Google these words

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Yeahnahyeah · 01/10/2019 00:03

Black women murdered in 2019
Google this.

Don't tell me big tech is not influencing us. I first noticed this after realizing the reason I was so late to the party re trans issues was mainly due to mainstream media and fecken algorithms.

I am, or was, hard left. Now I am politically homeless as are lots of us. But criky even I have to admit how left wing Google, Twitter, Facebook, and all the Biggie's are. They have too much power and (I can't believe I'm saying this) I have some sympathy for Trump and his supporters regarding the fake news narrative.

What we're your results? Oh and the Google search above isn't something that's gone viral so as to impact any algorithm.

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Ringsender2 · 01/10/2019 00:27

Blimey. Who the heck is manipulating things to this extent?

zebrasdontwearbras · 01/10/2019 00:25

Startpage - This is what DH set me up with when I asked him to get me off google. Just as bad - and I believe is fed mainly by google results anyway.

Google are so powerful.

Google these words
ErrolTheDragon · 01/10/2019 00:23

Yup, that's the sort of results I'm getting.

Are there any other search engines we can try?

zebrasdontwearbras · 01/10/2019 00:22

The search for women isn't much better.

Google these words
zebrasdontwearbras · 01/10/2019 00:20

Incidentally, this is a screenshot of my google search.

Google these words
Hellbentwellwent · 01/10/2019 00:16

Bloody hell.... that is quite astonishing

zebrasdontwearbras · 01/10/2019 00:14

You're not wrong about the big tech companies. They control the information. We should all be worried about that.

Google, twitter, facebook, wikipedia, youtube. They're controlling what we see, what we hear - even what words we're allowed to use. It's far-reaching - and it scares me. It's so powerful it can swing an election or a referendum now.

Who knew that 1984 would be the via the internet? Shock

ErrolTheDragon · 01/10/2019 00:13

Wiki.com is giving different types of results, other than the first hit.

But that's not a comprehensive search engine.

ErrolTheDragon · 01/10/2019 00:07

I tried this a few days ago.

Then I tried other search engines - DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Bing iirc. Not exactly the same results, but along similar lines.

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Yeahnahyeah · 01/10/2019 00:05

Bugger it's bedtime for a lot of you. Always when I want to chat.
Signed, an antipodean. Smile

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