Without stating an opinion, I just want to get some of the facts clarified since there are a lot of knee-jerk reactions here: 1) Google isn't threatening to de

Without stating an opinion, I just want to get some of the facts clarified since there are a lot of knee-jerk reactions here: 1) Google isn't threatening to deindex them, they're threatening to pull ads on the site. This is likely to be due to the fact that advertisers are very sensitive about what kinds of content their brand is associated with. 2) The content that is most likely triggering Google's let's-not-scare-off-advertisers alarms is most likely in the rather extensive comment sections. For example, one of the articles they call out as being flagged falsely [0] for vaccine misinformation and hateful speech doesn't mention vaccines in the body but does have a comment in the body that mentions vaccines in a hostile way. [0] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/06/blowback-for-the-twenty-first-century-remembering-chalmers-johnson.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/06/blowback-for-the-twe...