 "Google's lower ranking of Sputnik and Russia Today articles would be censorship: Russia foreign ministry")
Russia’s foreign ministry said on 23 November that moves by Alphabet Inc’s Google to place articles from Russian news outlets Sputnik and Russia Today
**lower in search results** would amount to censorship. [caption id=“attachment_4203203” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Google. Reuters.[/caption]
Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, speaking on stage at an international forum on 18 November, responded to a question about Sputnik articles appearing on Google by saying the company was working to give less prominence to “those kinds of websites” as opposed to delisting them.
Speaking at a news briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on 23 November Google was acting under strong political pressure from the U.S. authorities.
