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Design doc: feeding WebSpam manual actions to Google News (2017)

Engineering design for removing domains from the Google News corpus when they receive certain WebSpam manual actions.

Employees' email addresses, phone numbers and most names have been blacked out. Executives and document authors already named in public coverage are left visible.

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