Google has now teamed up with the MSM (including Gannett) to build what they are calling the Google News Initiative. This is supposed to be a consortium of the traditional fake media outlets and the social media platforms to 'fight fake news'— which is their way of saying that they are going to step up their efforts to silence conservative voices.
Google's new algorithms were purposefully designed to choke off independent media while claiming that they are protecting the public from foreign (specifically, Russian) propaganda. Google has been doing a lot of unethical shit behind the scenes. I'm betting that we don't yet know about the worst of it.
https:// www.mintpressnews.com/google-and-corporate-news-giants-forge-alliance-to-defeat-independent-journalism/239475/
https:// www.blog.google/topics/google-news-initiative/announcing-google-news-initiative/