Is Google's AI censorship partly to blame for the Coronavirus Pandemic?

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Many websites, including this one, as well as newspaper rooms that might have existed "pre-google" stealing their content reported on Coronavirus "rumors" in China and were warning the world.

Since mainly Google (and Facebook) have become the source of what's important for people to know in the 2010-2020 era they have a certain "editorial" responsibility that I think many are missing.

The Press of yesteryear were also our "watchmen" calling out warnings and alerting the masses.

Through years of stealing content from the press and fewer and fewer actually reading news articles or subscribing to journalists a whole new generation has no "Press".... just corporate owned PR departments. They killed any possible profit from investigative journalism long ago.

Now the skeleton corporate "Press" crew can only be seen if they "Pay to Play" with Google. (and Facebook)

Imagine for a moment if a "Boston Globe" sounded the alarm to a listening audience that China was covering up a plague to a world of 1988. Politicians would have been pressured to react and secure borders etc. The WHO would have been held accountable. People would have known that a President defunded the Pandemic protection from the CDC etc...

Evidently somebody in 2020 didn't pay Google enough.

And since I won't pay them to "promote this post"... this very important message probably will not be seen by most people.

Welcome to the new Internet completely owned by Google and Facebook.

Would you say their "AI" editorialism of selecting what they think is relevant for your searches and news distribution worked?

Or was your search "flawed"?

p.s.- Don't even get me started how people get their news on Facebook.