The title of John Weeks' Sept. 4 feature in The Integrator Blog is chilling: "Self-Interested Whims of the Oligarchs: Google and Facebook Kill Access to Alternative and Integrative Medicine." Here are a few choice excerpts; a modified version runs with permission in the November DC:
"Changed Google algorithms cut in half traffic on [McTaggert's] e-magazine site ... She reported Mercola's even more devastating losses while also sharing [his] belief that Google's additional manual manipulation of search targets cut down additional traffic where the algorithms hadn't already driven in the knives. Why? Via associative laws – such as Google's investment in pharmaceutical solutions – McTaggert puts [Big Pharma] at the calamitous keyboard. ... McTaggert calls it 'a massive concerted effort by Big Tech and giant corporations to censor the information you are allowed to see.'"
"In 'Forget Facebook – Three Reasons to Leave Facebook Immediately,' Mercola tells his 1.8-million Facebook followers that he is leaving the site to work via e-mail newsletters. One reason: 'Facebook is a monopoly.' He shares how the business CrossFit's Banting7DayMealPlan with its 1.65-million users was summarily dropped by Facebook. (It was later reinstated.)"
"What of smaller, less vocal and less powerful users? One of these ... contacted me to note that his site and that of a colleague had each dropped by 50%. Neither was ready to blame Google, perhaps fearing repercussions. ... [However], he directed me to a frightening though excellent resource that lays out the pattern of intentional suppression of traffic."
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