Most people on the actual left weren't caught up in the "fake news/Russia/Russian fake news stole the election" hysteria because none of them supported Clinton in the first place.
As the article said:
> In a set of guidelines issued to Google evaluators in March, elaborated in April by Google VP of Engineering Ben Gomes, the company instructed its search evaluators to flag pages returning “conspiracy theories” or “upsetting” content unless “the query clearly indicates the user is seeking an alternative viewpoint.” The changes to the search rankings of WSWS content are consistent with such a mechanism.
Notice how Google said "alternative viewpoint". Alternative to what? Google seems to be establishing a new orthodoxy.
You can think of it this way, do you really really want some particular corporation or government agency to have that tool in their toolbox? Because if they do they'll use it.
Kinda like right to work laws designed to prevent 'illegal' emigrants from working. You really really want the government to be able to prevent you from getting a job?
Salon/AlterNet: Fighting fake news: Google’s new fact-check tool attempts to combat a global issue
http://www.salon.com/2017/04/23/fighting-fake-news-googles-n...
Salon/AlterNet's main concern was apparently that it didn't do enough.
> this doesn’t do anything to directly combat the use of Google’s platform to spread false or offensive stories.”
But it was probably naive to assume Google would limit itself to censoring political opinions with which one disagrees.