Apparently Google forgot to tell us this:
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So for the past four months or more, Google has not supported the Google News meta keywords tag. Don't confuse this with the normal meta keywords tag, which Google has not supported in ages. This is specific to news publishers and a special keyword tag in the format of <meta name="news_keywords"...
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Google News Meta Keywords Tag Hasn't Been Supported Since October 2017
Barry Schwartz - Feb 20, 2018
This was confirmed by Danny Sullivan via his Google @searchliaison account on Twitter:
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Google News has deprecated support of the news_keywords meta tag. Introduced in 2012, it was an optional, supplementary way for us to better understand what stories were about. Our systems have greatly improved since then, so it’s no longer needed nor was it widely used....
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5:01 PM - 20 Feb 2018
https://twitter.com/searchliaison/st...15691517505536