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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title A story of (non)compliance, bias, and conspiracies: How Google and Yandex represented Smart Voting during the 2021 parliamentary elections in Russia
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Mykola Makhortykh
  • Aleksandra Urman
  • Mariëlle Wijermars
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
Publisher Harvard Kennedy School
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 2766-1652
Volume 3
Number 2
Page Range online
Date 2022
Abstract Text On 3 September 2021, the Russian court forbade Google and Yandex to display search results for “Smart Voting,” the query referring to a tactical voting project by the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. To examine whether the two search engines complied with the court order, we collected top search outputs for the query from Google and Yandex. Our analysis demonstrates the lack of compliance from both engines; however, while Google continued prioritizing outputs related to the opposition’s web resources, Yandex removed links to them and, in some cases, promoted conspiratorial claims aligning with the Russian authorities’ anti-Western narrative.
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Official URL https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/a-story-of-noncompliance-bias-and-conspiracies-how-google-and-yandex-represented-smart-voting-during-the-2021-parliamentary-elections-in-russia/
Digital Object Identifier 10.37016/mr-2020-94
Other Identification Number merlin-id:22236
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