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 @40cd5708 I think that was a hoax? Can’t remember. It was a Mr. Beast thing?

This guy actually did it (and lived to tell the story)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnCzYaIW50A 
 "I have spent decades looking for examples of Google putting its enormous thumb on the scale to censor or amplify certain results, and it hadn’t even occurred to me that Google just flat out deletes queries and replaces them with ones that monetize better.”

Absolutely bonkers. The Google antitrust trial discovered that Google is actually *changing user queries* in order to generate results that give more sponsored ads

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

#Google #Antitrust #Fraud 
 I did a search out of curiosity to see how much the CD release of the original version of the Bat... 
 @dee851c8 Seems like prices are all over the place...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134753354412?epid=86446233

YT is good enough for me ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73DU0HSmEGo 
 For-profit media has had a LOT of failures in the past years, but one of the worst is how it minimizes the violence and potential violence from right-wing MAGA and Trump supporters

No mention of MAGA or Trump  in this article whatsoever

https://apnews.com/article/controversial-statue-new-mexico-shooting-dd3b5c671544044dc83eb8bedb480320