Taylor LorenzDec 23, 2024

Seeking help! No matter how many keywords/names u search related to this story the article doesn't appear on Google

This was a front page A1 story I wrote for WaPo on how smear campaigns and abuse women journalists endure are a press freedom issue. Can someone explain why the article does not appear on Google? https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/02/14/women-journalists-global-violence/

These women journalists were doing their jobs. That made them targets.

A Forbidden Stories consortium: Female reporters are often pushed out of their jobs as global news organizations struggle to respond to disinformation campaigns

The Washington Post
Show threadTaylor LorenzDec 23, 2024
One of the journalists featured in this story raised it to me, she is wondering if bad actors have been able to get the story hidden from Google. These women journalists were so brave to detail their abuse and harassment, and now the story is essentially wiped from the web. What is going on!?
Show threadBruce Davie
@taylorlorenz I’ve been able to find syndicated copies of the story (on sites like rsn.org and thefridaytimes.com) which credit WaPo for the original. But definitely not finding the original easily. Seems like it must be on an explicit “no index” list, which is certainly something either Google or WaPo could do. Given that the behaviour is consistent across other search engines, I’d suspect WaPo has set a “no index” flag. Interesting that they still have the article online if you know the link.
Dec 23, 2024 at 5:17amWeb