Google Discover continues to recommend Russian propaganda for viewing
However, after a recent scandal, some Russian media outlets have been restricted
Russian propaganda outlets have lost millions of views from Google Discover, a service that recommends articles to users of the mobile version of the Chrome browser.
Source. This is reported by the Agency with reference to LiveInternet data.
The statistics show a sharp drop in traffic to the Komsomolskaya Pravda website from 15 million hits in the week from October 30 to November 5 to 72,000 in the week from November 13 to 19. Similarly, the number of visits to Tsargrad dropped from 2.2 million to 13,700 during the same period.
Despite the restrictions, Discover continues to recommend publications from a number of Russian propaganda resources, including Life.ru, the Agency notes. According to LiveInternet, this site remains one of the ten resources with the highest traffic through the recommendation feed.
In October, Bloomberg reported that despite Google's anti-war policy, Discover continues to offer articles from propaganda outlets. Lev Gershenzon, the former head of Yandex News, estimated that Discover provides 20 to 30 million clicks to propaganda resources every day.
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