Google updated the manual action policy violations list for News and Discover, removing sections on adult themes and artificial freshening, while adding several sections on deceptive practices and updating the hateful content section. This change occurred between October 10th and November 27th, as per the Wayback Machine.
Key Changes
- Deceptive practices: Coordinated deceptive practices: Content that conceals or misrepresents site ownership or purpose.
- Deceptive practices: Good neighbor policy: Content that impersonates or conceals the organization that created it.
- Deceptive practices: Impersonation: Content that misrepresents the person or organization providing it.
- Deceptive practices: Misrepresentation of affiliation: Content that misrepresents or conceals financial or editorial relationships of content producers.
- Deceptive practices: Misrepresentation of location: Content that misrepresents or conceals the country of origin of the website.
