HARD TO BELIEVE HE SAID THIS WITH A STRAIGHT FACE:

“Gingras said Google was “in the trust business” and felt “an extraordinary sense of responsibility” about the reliability of information highlighted by its search engine and news app.”

They keep insisting that they are a mere conduit, a common carrier like the phone company. But one look at “Google News” shows a selection and arrangement evidencing an editorial skew than simply cannot be attributed to a mere algorithm. And that skew extends well past editorial content: Google was fined $21 million by India’s competition commission for abusing its dominant position in the local search market for online general web search and web search advertising services.

“Don’t be evil”?