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There is good knowledge for people who do not fear really stupid names and who believe that advanced technology has an anti-conservative bias – New Corp has come up with an alternative to Google News, tentatively called Knewz.com.

The Wall Street Journal announced that its parent company planned to release the news aggregation platform later this year, but could eventually decide not to launch it.

The new platform would bring together hundreds of leading national media outlets, such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, as well as local newspapers. But, according to WSJ, there would also be conservative media like the Daily Caller, the Daily Wire, the Washington Examiner and the Washington Free Beacon.

As WSJ says, "the project aims to give exposure to smaller outlets that, according to News Corp.'s executives, are often downgraded in Google's search results and in Facebook's social thread."

Research on Google's practices has not revealed any definitive proof that the company is deliberately censoring conservative publications. However, Google has strived to promote reliable news sources with an editorial process and clear content standards.

Gizmodo asked News Corp to confirm whether Knewz would seek to promote conservative outlets, and company spokesman James Kennedy referred to his commentary at the WSJ.

"We are studying this issue with the goal of recognizing and rewarding the provenance of journalism and generating traffic and data to publishers, including subscription sites, so that their original work is respected," he said. Kennedy to WSJ. "We want people to see a wide range of news and views, from local, niche and national sources, without bias."

According to WSJ, Knewz would send the readers directly to the sites of the information publications and would not take a percentage of the advertising revenue from these outlets. However, if the service were successful, it would allow the conservative press company owned by Rupert Murdoch to have more influence over how people get their information, eliminating some of the control of Google and Facebook.

News Corp's people are not known to be new media geniuses and their properties like Fox News and The Wall Street Journal tend to target older audiences. The company's best-known foray into digital media has been its dramatic inability to do anything with MySpace after buying the nascent social network in 2005 for $ 580 million. But with the adoption by the oldest demographic groups of online life, Murdoch's properties have grown phenomenally, with the Fox News website regularly beating the New York Times and the Washington Post in terms of traffic.

Murdoch has not concealed his belief that Google is a malicious force that, if it does not harm the world, at least hurts its results. In March, he publicly called for Google to be dissociated in a long regulatory submission to the Australian government. He wrote that "Google's market power across the entire ad-tech supply chain is overwhelming" and kills publishers in all ideological areas. That's right, and you also have to keep in mind when one of Murdoch's spokesmen tries to say that the real grievance is that Google is censoring the Conservatives.