Tue Apr 19, 2022 – 4:35 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The CEO of the popular alternative search engine DuckDuckGo, which prides itself as a privacy-centric alternative to Google, has said that despite claims from some, there will not be any “purging” of independent media from its search results.
“Hoping to clear up some misconceptions about our private search engine. First, there is a completely made up headline going around this weekend. We are not ‘purging’ any media outlets from results. Anyone can verify this by searching for an outlet and see it come up in results,” tweeted DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg on April 17.
The statement from Weinberg comes after News Punch claimed in a March 11 report that DuckDuckGo would be clearing its site of independent media.
Wrote News Punch, “DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg has announced that the search engine will begin purging all independent media outlets from the platform and will replace them with ‘trusted’ mainstream media outlets instead.”
Weinberg stated today on Twitter that the News Punch report is “completely false.”
“To clear up any confusion, the ‘made up headline’ referenced in the first tweet of this thread was referring to a newspunch
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