Re:DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disin...
by marcosdumay on Thursday March 10, 2022 @02:13PM
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The case of different platforms is not a filter bubble. It's just a social bubble like it always existed.
The fundamental feature of a filter bubble is that you can not escape it. If all it takes is looking at another site, it's not it.
Anyway, I prefer my search results devoid of known falsehoods. I don't believe it at all that DDG can achieve this, but if there's a loud known source of that can be cut without false positives, I do prefer that it's cut. Unfortunately, verifying the mainstream news isn't such an easy task, so that DDG will become both more reliable and more biased at the same time. Personally, I don't care much for the bias. I care about the reliability.
(And yes, all of your conclusions are probably true.)
The fundamental feature of a filter bubble is that you can not escape it. If all it takes is looking at another site, it's not it.
Anyway, I prefer my search results devoid of known falsehoods. I don't believe it at all that DDG can achieve this, but if there's a loud known source of that can be cut without false positives, I do prefer that it's cut. Unfortunately, verifying the mainstream news isn't such an easy task, so that DDG will become both more reliable and more biased at the same time. Personally, I don't care much for the bias. I care about the reliability.
(And yes, all of your conclusions are probably true.)