Google Manual Actions For News & Discover Policy Violations Updated [SE Roundtable]

If you lost news and discover traffic recently - this might apply >A few months ago, Google quietly updated the manual action policy violations list for News and Discover policy violations. Google removed the adult-theme and artificial freshening sections and then added a slew of deceptive practices sections, while also updating the hateful content section. >This change was spotted by Gagan Ghotra who nicely picked up on the change after I missed it. The change happened sometime between October 10th and November 27th, based on the Wayback Machine. >You can drill through each and everyone of these policies [over here](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9044175?hl=en#zippy=%2Cnews-and-discover-policy-violations). >Here is a quick list of the changes: >Deceptive practices: Coordinated deceptive practices (News and Discover): Google has detected content on your site that appears to conceal or misrepresent the site ownership or purpose. >Deceptive practices: Good neighbor policy (News and Discover): Google has detected content on your site that impersonates or conceals the organization that created the content. >Deceptive practices: Impersonation (News and Discover): Google has detected content on your site that misrepresents the person or organization that provided the content. >Deceptive practices: Misrepresentation of affiliation (News and Discover): Google has detected content on your site that seems to misrepresent or conceal the financial or editorial relationships of the content producers. >Deceptive practices: Misrepresentation of location (News and Discover): Google has detected content on your site that seems to misrepresent or conceal the country of origin of the website. Source: [RustyBrick on X](https://x.com/rustybrick/status/1878776760592208362) u/rustybrick [https://www.seroundtable.com/google-manual-actions-news-discover-policy-update-38729.html](https://www.seroundtable.com/google-manual-actions-news-discover-policy-update-38729.html)