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Jeff Jarvis: “They find their disinformation on DuckDuckGo”

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From Wikipedia:

  Jarvis is a co-host on This Week in Google, a live-streamed podcast show on the TWiT Network

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He is not a Google shill as far as I can tell.

He is a journalism professor at CUNY:

https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/faculty/jeff-jarvis/

It it acts like a shill and sounds like a shill and has a known reason for being a shill --- maybe it's not a shill --- but it certainly meets all the criteria.

> For many terms, Bing and DuckDuckGo surfaced more untrustworthy websites than Google did,

"untrustworthy" according to whom?

> when results were compared with website ratings from the Global Disinformation Index, NewsGuard and research published in the journal Science.

What if I don't trust these sources just like I don't trust the New York Times?

The New York Times doing what it does best: gatekeeping. They are only lashing out because their monopoly on propaganda has been destroyed by independent voices. It is unfortunate that a wonderful resource like DuckDuckGo is falling victim to the paper's authoritarian impulses.

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