Following politics it certainly appears exactly that way. The news has become a sport of reading both sides and assuming the truth lies somewhere very orthogonal to the information provided.
What I find most interesting is that qanon and other similar crapspiracies have recently upticked here on HN. Used to be lots of ultra-capitalist but socially progressive dominated and free of right-wingers, but ah well, here we are. Eternal September effect in the works?
>It's been theorized that these companies are trying to reinstate an "official" narrative for people to follow.
You can theorize anything. Doesn't mean it's true. Tim Pool is not the best resource on this either. His default is to provide the most nefarious interpretation of facts on hand ... and in this case he doesn't have evidence for this 'theory'.
The problem is that if Google doesn't use major sources then they get accused of propagating 'Fake News' - because non-major news sources tend to be more sloppy and more overtly biased in their reporting. Do you want Breitbart or Infowars to be a news result for political news queries alongside NYTimes and Washington Post?
