The site has never been much liked by Google but has now gotten to where more people find it via Duckduckgo (2.3% of the market) than with Google (87% of the market):
By some measure, pageviews originating on Google are more than 90 percent down from where they were back in 2019:
It was bound to happen. Google does not hide it has employees check news sites and manually assign them “authoritativeness” and “trustworthiness” ratings, which then determine if Google will promote you, or suppress you.
SOURCE: https://anti-empire.com/anti-empire-shadow-banned-by-google/