Curious, if anyone is the know. For fifteen years or so Google has given great seo page 1 results to many of the big defamation/ extortion (complaint) websites. In the era of fake news, does anyone know why they continue to do this? Thousands of the pages on these sites are fake obvious erroneous reporting yet they continue to get great page one results. Will this just continue on indefinitely?
It seems that Google have in some cases inserted a snippet under fake news. The snippet is based on a fact-checking website, for example Snopes, and will conclude if the website content is false, mixed or true.