I've noticed that, too!
I suspect that 's because DDG is a "searcher of other search engines" -- and, not a true "WWW Spider" search engine like Google.
Google and other search engine results are politically biased. As a result, DDG results now mimic that bias...
TXnMA
” BTW, duckduckgo is about as useful as google now.”
So what do you recommend for a search engine?