I saw a headline that got my attention: "Conspiracy theorists flock to DuckDuckGo to find information banned or buried by Google." The article starts out by saying that The New York Times reported this story. Well if that's the case, why do you I need you, Raw Story? I'll just go straight to the source. Oh, that's right. There's a paywall. The easy fix is to paste the URL into the Wayback Machine, and POOF no more paywall (Thanks TikTok!).
TL;DR - Here's a paragraph that sums up the article:
TL;DR - Here's a paragraph that sums up the article:
The endorsements underscore how right-wing Americans and conspiracy theorists are shifting their online activity in response to greater moderation from tech giants like Google. They have increasingly embraced fledgling and sometimes fringe platforms like the chat app Telegram, the video streamer Rumble and even search engines like DuckDuckGo, seeking conditions that seem more favorable to their conspiracy theories and falsehoods.
So where are the "trustworthy" sources of information and who decides that? Some executive at Google or CNN or some algorithm? Does anybody still think mainstream media and government agencies are trustworthy? Over the last two years, Everyone's Favorite Virus™️ has exposed how information is disseminated and how "misinformation" is just a classification for information that goes against the accepted narrative.
That doesn't mean there aren't crackpots out there pushing some crazy ideas. Now more than ever, there is a flood of information available at one's fingertips. Isn't the problem that our education system doesn't teach critical thinking to allow kids to become adults who can decide for themselves the difference between solid information and horseshit?
Sometimes we aren't even allowed access to data. How outrageous is it that the CDC has held back the publishing of much of the data it has collected for fear of "misinterpretation." As in maybe the "vaccines" aren't as safe and effective as we have been told they are.
I like how they refer to Telegram as a "fringe platform." Yes, it's such a fringe idea to want free discourse without being censored or de-platformed. Here's another fringe idea--I don't need some faceless entity telling me what to think.
You should never rely on any single source for information.
That doesn't mean there aren't crackpots out there pushing some crazy ideas. Now more than ever, there is a flood of information available at one's fingertips. Isn't the problem that our education system doesn't teach critical thinking to allow kids to become adults who can decide for themselves the difference between solid information and horseshit?
Sometimes we aren't even allowed access to data. How outrageous is it that the CDC has held back the publishing of much of the data it has collected for fear of "misinterpretation." As in maybe the "vaccines" aren't as safe and effective as we have been told they are.
I like how they refer to Telegram as a "fringe platform." Yes, it's such a fringe idea to want free discourse without being censored or de-platformed. Here's another fringe idea--I don't need some faceless entity telling me what to think.
You should never rely on any single source for information.
