Auditing specifically the Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex, extant Influence of search personalisation ( HaimĪl., 2015). Presence of various biases in search results ( Kravets and Toepfl, 2021 Makhortykh et al., 2022) and investigated the ( Puschmann, 2019 Steiner et al., 2020 Trielli and Diakopoulos, 2019 Unkel and Haim, 2019 Urman et al., 2021a), examined the For instance, researchers have analysed the diversity of search results Number of studies in the realm of political communication have recently implementedĢ016: 4992). Information, altering traditional news flow patterns ( Wallace, 2018) and reshaping how people consume newsĪiming at assessing the sociopolitical consequences of search engine behaviour, a growing Since the early 2000s, search engines have become powerful intermediaries of digital US plotters to be behind the pandemic, even though the virus spread from the Chinese city Retrieves significantly more conspiratorial content (2) that close to exclusively suspects 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
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