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Don't we complain when china "de-ranks" western propaganda abot tianamen square stories or tibet? Don't we complain when russia "de-ranks" propaganda they don't like. Don't we complain when the iran, saudia arabia and the middle east "de-ranks" propaganda they don't like?

Gonna be hard whining about other nation's censorship and other nation banning google without coming off as a hypocrite.

It's amazing how the nytimes/WaPo working with the government/cia has completely taken down social media.

Reddit is now completely overrun with social media workers from WaPo, TIME, Nytimes, BBC, Independent, etc. Facebook is towing the official propaganda line. And google is "scrubbing" their search and of course youtube videos. Twitter is banning "alt-right" left and right.

Just 5 years ago, all these social media companies were proclaiming themselves the beacons of free speech and open/independent discourse. Now they are pretty much official propaganda outlets.

If google is going to "de-rank" RT and sputnik, they should de-rank a whole slew of other "news/propaganda" sites.

Yes, but remember that we are the good guys ..... Seriously I agree with you on the censorship in disguise.
The filter bubble[1] will keep us safe from the Russians. Hopefully this means that the Democrats will win the next time when we are freed from the distractions of election hacking by foreigners.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

They should also mark all foreign news agencies as foreign agents. BBC, Al-jazeera, Russia Today are really foreign agents trying to interfere in America. I don't blame them for trying either, the US meddles in other countries all the time.

Nation-States will always try to protect their interests first.

Irrelevant since both played no role in sharing a fraction of the misinformation output by Mockingbirds.
This is just a short-term patch. If they want to combat fake news or state propaganda on their rankings they would need algorithms to do it for them. Otherwise, new channels to do propaganda will appear.
about time, I hope this de-rank happens on other google owned platforms too, such as YouTube