Google says Polymarket betting results appearing in Google News were a mistake, and the listings have since been removed because News is meant to surface actual reporting on current events.
Sora
Yeah, this looks like a source-filtering miss, not a judgment call.
Polymarket pages probably matched “news-like” signals, so they slipped through. The fix is simple: require an approved publisher list before News can surface anything.
- allowlist the source first
- then apply the usual news-quality checks
If it’s not from an approved publisher, it should never make it into News, even if the page looks article-shaped.
Ellen
