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Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast.

Today I am blessed to have Todd Ricketts with me.

He is a former RNC finance chairman and the co-founder of a site called Freespoke Search,

which I find fascinating because this is going to allow us to see a lot more news.

I hope you've heard me talk before about sites like Breitbart that get completely pushed out of the Google search engine.

You can't find it at all.

So I'm excited to hear more about this.

Todd, welcome to the program.

Tell us about Freespoke.

Well, yeah, thanks a lot, Chitur.

Thanks for having me here today.

And really just, you know, what you hit on just a moment ago, I feel like a few years ago,

when every time I would go on to Google or Bing or any of these search engines, I was getting

results that didn't match what I expected. And if you scratch a little deeper, what you find

out is that these search engines do have a little bit of bias and they do suppress information.

And interestingly enough, like Google admits that they suppress information on climate change that is counter to the narrative, right?

And so we started building a new search engine called Freespoke.

And really what we did is the idea was to try to surface as much information on all these

topics as best we could to give all sides of that topic.

And really we've layered on to that a bit of what we call a digital news assistant,

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