DuckDuckGo 'down-ranks' Russian disinformation. Users are not happy

&gt;<i>These nuances don&#x27;t appear to affect how DuckDuckGo&#x27;s users feel about Weinberg&#x27;s announcement. At the time this piece was published, Weinberg&#x27;s tweet about the &quot;down-rank&quot; has been replied to more than 10,000 times and received over 3,000 quote tweets. The tweet has less than 600 retweets.</i><p>I don&#x27;t think &#x27;users&#x27; is the operative word here. It&#x27;s just sounds like the usual loud fringe that complains about everything.

Disinformation should be downrated. If I use a search engine, I should be able to find reliable information, not something that is artificially and falsely promoted. But I also need to be able to find it in case I want to do research, learn how Russians are thinking etc. I think DuckDuckGo has taken an appropriate approach.

&#x27;air quoting&#x27; an assertion implies doubt on the claim, yet it is precisely what DuckDuckGo are explicitly doing, which the article later explains. You can agree or disagree on DuckDuckGo&#x27;s decisions here, but why insert doubt when there is none? This is a form of disinformation in and of itself, metapropaganda

Russian disinformation not Russian websites. So it’s correct.