Google Search Suppresses Progressive / Left-Wing / Anti-War Websites

Google Shadow Banned

On September 19, 2017, the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) published a report on how several progressive / left-wing / anti-war websites had seen dramatic drops in their traffic from Google Search over the prior few months. The WSWS had themselves seen a 74% drop in traffic. Their report, which was actually a follow-up to one they published about a month prior, included the following sites and their corresponding drops in traffic between April to September of 2017:

Site% traffic decrease
(from Apr-Sep)
Alternet-71%
Global Research-62%
Democracy Now-50%
Common Dreams-50%
Truth-out.org-49%

The article concludes with the following:

Google’s actions against the World Socialist Web Site and other left and progressive sites are making clear the real targets of Internet censorship: news outlets and political organizations opposing war, social inequality and the domination of society by the financial oligarchy.

Sources / Relevant Material

  1. wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/19/goog-s19.html
  2. wsws.org/en/articles/2017/07/27/goog-j27.html