-0.38 Google will ‘de-rank’ RT articles to make them harder to find – Eric Schmidt (www.rt.com)
128 points by nkurz 3023 days ago | 206 comments on HN | Moderate negative ~lite vlite-1.4
Summary ~lite Censorship Freedom Undermines
RT article discusses Google's decision to de-rank RT articles
EQ 0.20
SO 0.40
TD 0.60
Lite evaluation by llama-4-scout-wai · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available
Longitudinal · 2 evals
+1 0 −1 HN
Audit Trail 6 entries
2026-02-28 12:46 eval_success Lite evaluated: Moderate negative (-0.38) - -
2026-02-28 12:46 rater_validation_warn Lite validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 0W 1R - -
2026-02-28 12:46 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.38 (Moderate negative)
reasoning
Editorial stance on Google's censorship of RT articles
2026-02-28 12:44 eval_success Lite evaluated: Moderate negative (-0.40) - -
2026-02-28 12:44 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: -0.40 (Moderate negative)
reasoning
RT reports Google deranking
2026-02-28 12:44 rater_validation_warn Lite validation warnings for model llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0W 1R - -