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tus87·

This is totally fake.

Google has to MANIPULATE it's search results to put NPR first.

The smaller sites are linked to more often but Google doesn't want you to see them for political reasons.

The smaller sites don't want regulation - they want and end to manipulation and censorship.

And most reasonable conservative people see NPR,BBC at least as garbage extremist left wing outlet, and would not want to see them at all.

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> The smaller sites are linked to more often but Google doesn't want you to see them for political reasons.

Google has never claimed to order search results by the number of links to them. Otherwise the Flash installer (or whatnot) would be at the top of every search results page. :)

Err...that's the exact basis of the original google search algorithm, and what made it so good. You should read up on it, you might learn something.

Reasonable conservative people see NPR and BBC as extremist left wing?

I am told I am annonyingly centrist. While not 'extremist' in the casual sense, I very much see a hard bias to the left that often seem unfettered by the facts by NPR. BBC seems to have its own agenda, however not quite 'left' by american standards. Read any recent Brexit coverage to see the worrying doublespeak that seems to be de rigour today nevertheless. Before you ask, I honestly am unaware of any news org without bias, although many have enough writers and/or a soft hand to obscure systemic detection by casual readers. Everyone who works hard to publish something, by proxy seems to have an agenda beyond factual reporting. If they well-meaning or not seems almost a bygone conclusion. Information has never been more weaponized.

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