GOGGLES: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web Brave Search Team

The role of curation has been eliminated as the majority of value is captured by the platforms so it is  no longer economically viable. With fewer and weaker intermediaries, we also reduce the amount of independent points  of views or windows to the world.

The biases of Google and Facebook, whether algorithmic, datainduced, commercial or political dictate what version of the worldwe get to see. Reality becomes what the models we are fed depictit to be [24]. And a reality defined by Google’s search rankingalgorithm, is one that does not and cannot capture the intricaciesand variety of human knowledge ... See more