"And because the flow of information was gatekept by machines, the whole populous was blind to their situtation, and believed the vast array of diverse and numerous lies, chucked down their throats by the Party."

Yep. Google's Eric Schmidt said it was a "bug" that Google gave more than one result for your query instead of just giving you "the answer". This was their plan for a long time. It already happens when you ask devices like Amazon Alexa.