Google on Tuesday briefly stopped displaying conservative news outlets from its search
Daily Mail: Google's right-wing blacklist: Ex-engineer at tech giant says glitch which blocked some conservative websites from appearing in their search may have exposed a secret internal list which suppresses certain outlets
* Google on Tuesday morning for several hours did not display conservative news
* The company says they're aware of the incident but did not give an explanation
* A former Google engineer told Mediate he believes it exposes a 'secret blacklist'
* CEO Sundar Pichai says Google doesn't 'manually intervene' in search results
Google may have a 'secret blacklist' of conservative news outlets, a former engineer at the company has claimed, which was exposed on Tuesday when certain websites briefly vanished from Google search results.
Mike Wacker, a Google engineer who was fired from the company in June 2019 amid a row over his conservative ideology, said the brief incident on Tuesday suggested a 'blacklist'.
'It appears to have revealed the existence of another blacklist that disproportionately targets conservatives,' Wacker told Mediaite.
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WNU Editor: War News Updates was one of those sites black-listed. Hat tip to reader James for pointing out to me earlier in the day that WNU was blacklisted by Google.
