EC urges Google, Meta, others to promote dissident media in Belarus, FT says

The European Commission, EC, is urging Google (GOOGL) and other big technologies companies to help dissident Belarusian media by promoting their stories higher than what they argue are the algorithm-favored pro-regime outlets, Raphael Minder of The Financial Times reports. Belarusian exiled journalists have complained to the commission that content critical to the regime of Alexander Lukashenko are failing to reach target audiences, which they argue is partially due to the search algorithms used by Google, Meta (META), and others that take into account Lukashenko’s media censorship rules.