A screenshot of the “SmallSEOTools” website capable of checking whether the article is part of the Google index, showing that it is not indexed. Another article by WaPo is, however, indexed.

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   Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 00:44:48 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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   Hey @taylorlorenz, this may be even worse than you thought: The Washington Post un-indexed the article, so that no search engine is allowed to index it.

   I used this index checker to both check an arbitrary WaPo article and the one you sent. You could try more articles to see if this is more of a common thing.

   The way it looks to me now is that the Washington Post basically shadow-banned this article.