Why Google Poses a Serious Threat to Democracy

Robert Epstein's 2019 senate testimony. If you're not already aware of his study into the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME), & you value your brain, might be worth watching.

A couple of quotes from the testimony:

"Google presents a serious threat to democracy and human autonomy,"

"... democracy as originally conceived cannot survive Big Tech as currently empowered."

Here's a transcript of the testimony:

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Epstein%20Testimony.pdf

& Here's his paper on SEME:

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/33/E4512.full.pdf

Some alternative search engines worth a try:

presearch.org
startpage.com
duckduckgo.com

I generally stick with DDG, seems to satisfy my 'dissent' bias :-)))

Update:
Sadly DDG have joined the censors & restrict all information on "Ukraine" that does not fit the western imperialist narrative :-(
I now use search engines like any other publication source, swapping between about half a dozen depending on the topic being researched.