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Google News Requires Pubs To Disclose Country Of Origin

  • Bloomberg, Wednesday, December 20, 2017 8:57 AM
In an effort to create greater transparency over propaganda and disinformation campaigns by foreign powers, Google has created a new rule requiring publications to disclose their country of origin to be indexed in Google News results. Stories that do not disclose their national origin will be stripped from its results.

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  1. Chuck Lantz from 2007ac.com, 2017ac.com network, December 20, 2017 at 5:17 p.m.


    When I worked for a content provider who submitted articles to Google News, Google had a whole slew of requirements that we had to follow carefully. 

    To now learn that "country of origin" was not one of those requirements is astounding. 

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