The New America Foundation is intimately intertwined with the search firm. So when Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, expressed his displeasure over the statement, the foundation moved quickly. But it has funded, directly or indirectly, 329 such papers since 2005, according to the US-based Campaign for Accountability. More than a quarter of those funded directly by Google didn’t disclose the source of their money, according to the report. Google boosted its shopping service using its dominance of search, and may have destroyed other, better, options for consumers.

Source: The Guardian September 01, 2017 18:00 UTC