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By manually analysing the content of 1320 search resultsĬollected in mid-April to mid-May 2020, we find that, compared with Google, (1) Yandex In Belarus, examining the visibility and narratives of COVID-19-related conspiracy To do so, we conduct a comparative algorithm audit of Google and Yandex In contrast, this study is the first toĪssess the role of Yandex’s web search algorithms as a resource for Russia’s informational Prior research, however,Īudited Yandex’s algorithms largely within Russia. That are biased toward the interests of Russia’s ruling elites. Yandex, compared to those of its US-based counterpart Google, frequently produce results Extant research demonstrated that the algorithms of the Kremlin-controlled search engine
