Using an Android phone, where my browser (Google chrome) shows a news-feed of recent headlines. Of course, the feed is curated by their recommendation algorithms, based on my interactions, clicks, search keywords and whatever else they use as input features to their ranking models. Obviously, the exact inputs and post-processing filters/guardrails are not publicly known, but as a machine learning engineer myself, I have some decent clue of how the principles work.

So if I ever search for a second car or visit some automobile review sites, they naturally assume that I am about buy a vehicle, and start bombarding me with all things car all of a sudden.

But...never about Bitcoin. As in, I actively bookmarked websites like Bitcoin Magazine, or lightning news, I visit them every other week or so just to see what's up in the eco-system, who is developing something cool to increase adoption.

But no, absolutely never...a headline related to Bitcoin (or even shitcoins/crypto) shows up on my news-feed. I get news related to general finance, stock market and whatnot. But it almost makes me suspect that they have an active filter in place on this topic, to protect us from any Bitcoin related contents.

I cannot confirm the exact nature of built-in bias here, whether it is Google's own content moderation decision or they have been persuaded by some/any government. But I feel the absence says a lot. Have others witnessed the same?