In March, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg announced updates to the platform that “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation” in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Īfter that decision, News Punch, a website that frequently publishes misinformation, ran a bogus headline about Weinberg, according to the website Heavy. In the headline, Weinberg is falsely quoted as saying only mainstream news outlets would be featured on the search engine. “We have never nor are we currently ‘purging’ or removing any media outlets from search results,” Goodman said. Sites with 'extremely low journalistic standards' down-ranked, not removedĪllison Goodman, a DuckDuckGo spokesperson, told USA TODAY the claim is “completely made up.” USA TODAY reached out to social media users who shared the claim for comment.
DuckDuckGo uses assessments by third-party organizations to down-rank websites with low journalistic standards, but they remain on the platform. 9 Facebook post ( direct link, archived link) that was shared more than 200 times in three weeks.įollow us on Facebook! Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunksīut the claim is false.
“DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg has announced that the search engine will begin purging all independent media outlets from the platform and will replace them with 'trusted' mainstream media outlets instead,” reads part of a Nov. Watch Video: Ohio AG seeks to declare Google a public utility The claim: DuckDuckGo’s CEO announced the search engine will 'purge' all independent mediaĭuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, has often been the preferred platform of anti-establishment social media users, but outrage at the service recently surfaced over the company's supposed move to control what news outlets visitors could access.
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