Overview:
As proven in the “Search Engine Bias” subtopic, performing a search on a political topic in most search engines will almost always favor the big-corporate left-biased media sources like the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, etc. If you want to find an alternate source of information there does not appear to be an alternative search engine. Therefore, the only way to get past the biased news is to apply a filter to the search results to exclude these biased sources.
The Fake-News Filter
Search Engines are supposed to exclude search terms by preceding them with a minus sign. However, this does not work consistently or at all in many search engines. The minus sign does work in Google, but since it is not recommended to use the Google search engine, DuckDuckGo was the only search engine tested that the Fake News Filter works with.
We have developed 2 versions of the filter, one that seems to generally work with DuckDuckGo and might work with your search engine, and the other that works specifically with DuckDuckGo. The disadvantage of the second version for DuckDuckGo is that it requires more characters and the search box has a size limitation. Therefore, this version has removed some of the lesser encountered web sites. We believe that the first version will work fine with DuckDuckGo, so try it first. If it doesn’t work use the second version.
Version 1 (General):
Simply click on the following link and replace the word “search” with your search phrase. You can bookmark this link to filter out fake news going forward.
After you click on this link you will see that it is nothing more than a DuckDuckGo search box with a minus sign in front of the websites to be removed. Therefore, it can be copied and modified. However, keep in mind that the length of the filter is limited and this one is already near the limit, so you would need to replace an existing website as opposed to adding new ones.
Version 2 (DuckDuckGo only):
If Version 1 does not work, click on the following link and replace the word “search” with your search phrase. You can bookmark this link to filter out fake news going forward.