Early in January, the Guardian Australia published alarming reports of a bushfire ravaging vast areas of the southern continent.
Three fires moving rapidly across New South Wales and Victoria had merged to create one gigantic “megablaze,” the news outlet reported, forcing midnight evacuations and the deployment of thousands of firefighters across the region.
Some Australians who rely on Google’s search engine for news might have missed this.
At the time of the bushfires, the multinational technology company was “running a few experiments” that removed some media sites from its search results, it told the Guardian a few days later.
