What happened to Cointelegraph?

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P.S Update
I did deep research today about Cointelegraph and its effective removal from Google. Cointelegraph partnered with Clickout Media to manage the iGaming section on the website. Cointelegraph took advantage of its website's ranking and published third-party pages to abuse the search rankings of Clickout Media. Cointelegraph didn't become a victim of Google's algorithm update. Most likely, Google enforced Site Reputation Abuse violations against Cointelegraph through manual actions.

Despite the fact that they quickly removed iGaming from their website, they are still punished by Google.

Thanks for digging deep on this. Many website administrators will learn to avoid this kind of action if they do not want to be punished by Google.
If you're business is not respected by Google, and they are punishing you, you will lose a lot of your reputation. It's better to appeal to have the punishment removed.
Now they have to rely heavily on their followers and subscribers for their traffic, and they need to be included in the search results to gain organic traffic.

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they fucked around with all the gambling affiliates spam shit and found out.
and if my memory is not failing me, last year google went after authority websites that were gaming the ranking by sposored articles filled with affiliates links.

this entire thing should remind people whose business model depends on google traffic, you are 100% at their mercy, one algorithm update or a penalty and you are fucked.

Which crypto casinos were they promoting? Btw aren't all of the crypto casino review websites full of sponsored articles filled with affiliate links? I checked casino guru and a few other similar websites, they aren't banned in the Google search engine.

the deferent is that those are 100% affiliate websites, they post their own affiliate links, that their main business model.
what other authority websites like cointelegraph and a bunch of other did, is they sold sponsored articles/listicles for like $1~3k that a third party writes and have their affiliate links.

2 years ago or so, if you would search anything on google like best casino, best vpn, best whatever, the top results would have always been from a big authority websites, and google didn't like that so they put a stop to it with a spam update.