Our Managing Editor, Jennifer Van Laar, alerted you to Google’s demonetization efforts toward RedState. As Van Laar wrote:
Why is Google flagging all these stories?
It’s doing it because each flagged article harms our domain score overall, which lowers our ad rates and leads to a lower quality of ads being shown on our site.
It’s doing it because we’re getting closer to the 2024 election and Google wants to make sure that outlets that practice real journalism are sent a big message: that any criticism of the integrity of the election will not be tolerated.
It’s doing it because it wants to send us a message that we’re not even safe behind the paywall – it’ll flag those articles, too, to punish us.
It appears Google’s targeting, intimidation, and demonetization tactics that they use against conservatives and conservative media are now being used against them. Google employees have…
