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Google’s ‘outrageous support to partisan media’ puts Turkey’s fragile communities at risk

Emre Kızılkaya, IPI Turkey National Committee Vice-chair, Journo.com.tr Project Editor

Emre Kızılkaya wrote on Google's policy and its impact on news ecosystem in Turkey

Google Headquarters, Mountain View, California. Shutterstock.

Imagine that the Google News Initiative decides to fund InfoWars, the far-right American conspiracy theory and fake news website.

Imagine that Google declines to blacklist InfoWars from its ad networks or algorithmically downgrade it as a reliable news source in its search engine.

In fact, imagine that you search for “Jew,” “LGBTI+” or the full name of a reputable journalist and Google ranks blatant hate speech as the top result.

Read blog on IPI’s FreeTurkeyJournalists website

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