On: Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news

[akjainaj]

I'm not sure I want Google to tell me what's fake and what's not fake.

This also means they're transitioning from being a neutral part to being curators.

[solipsism → akjainaj]

This also means they're transitioning from being a neutral part to being curators.

So you think Google shows you a list of sites sorted alphabetically by URL or something?

Google is famous specifically for PageRank, which is curation.

[akjainaj → solipsism]

But it is not manual curation, at least not officially. That's why the algorithm is so (in)famous, because it's an algorithm.