Bruce Dixon — It's Getting Real – Google Censors the Left. And Us.

More evidence that censorship is here.

It didn’t take long to see the “social media” players in First Draft to begin the actual suppression of public access to news, information, analysis and commentary from the left. Last week the World Socialist Web Site released the results of an investigation into Google keyword search results pointing to 13 of the left wing sites identified by PropOrNot. Their data in the table below showed that Google searches pointing to their sites declined in aggregate volume by 45%.

• wsws.org fell by 67 percent
• alternet.org fell by 63 percent
• globalresearch.ca fell by 62 percent
• consortiumnews.com fell by 47 percent
• socialistworker.org fell by 47 percent
• mediamatters.org fell by 42 percent
• commondreams.org fell by 37 percent
• internationalviewpoint.org fell by 36 percent
• democracynow.org fell by 36 percent
• wikileaks.org fell by 30 percent
• truth-out.org fell by 25 percent
• counterpunch.org fell by 21 percent
• theintercept.com fell by 19 percent

Black Agenda Report
It's Getting Real – Google Censors the Left. And Us.

Bruce Dixon | Managing Editor

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