> In addition to down-ranking sites associated with disinformation, we also often place news modules and information boxes at the top of DuckDuckGo search results (where they are seen and clicked the most) to highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics.
DuckDuckGo's search manipulation is just no different to Google's since essentially they are using Microsoft Bing's search results. [0] So the manipulation, down-ranking and censoring of search results was inevitable with tons of evidence of this: [1][2][3][4]
"At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.": [1]
At this point, DDG is a front for Microsoft using 'privacy' buzzwords. Might as well use Brave Search then.
Can you provide a citation for this?