I can't speak for the other wars he's trying to withdraw from, but the outgoing Syrian envoy lied about the number of troops remaining in Syria. Initially Trump wanted to withdraw entirely, but they recommended keeping 200 soldiers there to avoid that power vacuum you're talking about. Then they proceeded to lie about it.
Which will be very convenient for the upcoming conflict in Syria once Biden gets into office!
I'm not saying this isn't true (there's a lot of evidence to support this claim), however, if you read the actual report the Guardian is reporting on, all but one of their sources are Vox, NYT, WaPo. It wouldn't be controversial to say that these outlets lean left, and therefore would draw conclusions along those lines. Why didn't the Brennan Center report look at the studies directly? I think that taints the sources a bit.
Yeah, as far as I can tell there's no actual list of demands apart from "Defund the police" which isn't very practical.
Seems like more people are going to die, and public opinion of the movement will continue to drop. It seems to be pushing a lot of people to vote from Trump
I guess what I'm getting at there is, content aside, Google has made a conscious decision to step in here and de-rank that website. We don't know what their motivations for that are because they haven't stated that they de-ranked Breitbart.
Sundar Pichai was asked during testimony if they censor websites and he said (wording might be a bit off) "only in cases where it's a legal requirement or a copyright issue". If Breitbart being de-ranked was one of those then I'm sure they would have let Breitbart know. But as far as I can tell it was a concerted effort to suppress that website in particular.
If you come across any data about other sites that are similarly affected I'd love to know!
I see where you're coming from. In my opinion the search engine shouldn't take a stance when it comes to politics, though. They claimed they only step in when it's illegal content or copyright, but I haven't seen any evidence of them removing left-leaning sites in this fashion.
I can't prove that what Google did specifically targeted Breitbart but if it was just changes to the algo then we should have seen other popular sites with similarly dramatic drops in visibility. I'd love to see other examples if they do exist
Yeah absolutely, GA is quite terrifying. And they just ignore "do not track" settings on browsers. Recaptcha is another one trojan horse imo. With recaptcha v3 you get that single score to determine how legitimate of a user you are. I've been outright blocked from sites because of my recaptcha score.
I mean, yes, Stormfront is extremely racist. You could be right about Breitbart, but imo there's definitely misinformation coming from every angle of the political spectrum. After all, division and hatred sells. I do wish we could all get along
Yeah, I agree with this statement. I'm actually not very familiar with Breitbart's content so I don't know if it's really a conspiracy website as is being suggested here. But yes I believe censoring these websites does add legitimacy to them