America's Frontline Doctors
Case #
3425

Google suppresses America's Frontline Doctors for alleged low-quality information: Dr. Simone Gold, Founder of America's Frontline Doctors (AFLD), tweeted a purported screenshot from an email she received from Google. The notice read: "Your site appears to violate our medical content policy and contains content primarily aimed at providing medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment for commercial purposes. Nor do we allow content from any site that contradicts or runs contrary to a scientific or medical consensus and evidence-based best practices." According to Gold's tweet, she thought that the notice meant AFLD's website would be removed from Google Search results. However, Google's Public Liaison of Search, Danny Sullivan, clarified in a tweet that it would not eliminate it from results, but that it would affect search features. The "Content Policy for Google Search" elaborates: "Even though these features and the content within them is automatically generated as with web results, how they're presented might be interpreted as having greater quality or credibility than web results. We also don't want predictive or refinement features to unexpectedly shock or offend people." According to the policy, Google may suppress AFLD in "Google Autocomplete," "Image & video boxes," "Featured snippets" and "Google News," to name a few.

 

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