DuckDuckGo Destroys Brand by Embracing Censorship

This search engine, which once had a tenuous hold on unbiased results, destroyed the brand in a single tweet. It's crucial to take up grassroots efforts and identify astroturfing.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• In a single tweet March 9, 2022, DuckDuckGo destroyed its brand based on private searches returning unbiased results when the CEO said they were “rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”

• If you were unfamiliar with DuckDuckGo, then the move to censorship would not sound out of the ordinary s…