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Google AdSense has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news

The company routinely weeds out "bad ads." Now it weeds out more bad ad publishers, too.

www.recode.net|Tess Townsend

Publishers were banned in November and December and included sites that impersonate real news organizations through shortened top-level domains, according to Google’s 2016 “bad ads” report, normally released at the beginning of each year.

So-called fake news publishers will sometimes take advantage of “.co” domains by appearing similar to legitimate news sites that would normally end in “.com.”

Google declined to provide a listing of the banned sites.