Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news

I'd love to see the list of banned publishers.

I wonder if it's any of these sites? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13208906

Why not show a statement like they do with copyright removal requests and indicate to the user that there are flagged results in the search query, but give the option to view the results anyway? At least in that respect, they don't re-enforce the notion that news is being censored at the request of some third party or that Google is taking the vigilante route to culling fake news.

I feel like the title is fake news and should be banned. They are removing publishers from their ad network not baned from Google

Is that going to include Trump's Press Secretary?

I'm not sure I want Google to tell me what's fake and what's not fake.

This also means they're transitioning from being a neutral part to being curators.

It shouldn't be an ad network's job to adjudicate truth, especially given Google's monopolistic position. They should stick to selling and reselling eyeballs and clicks, and regulating things directly material to that, e.g. deceitful ad placement.

All of a sudden they care about fake news... after their billionaire homie gets into office