>Downranking Russian state propaganda from the search results for people searching general news about the war in Ukraine is useful and makes the results better.
You can plausibly make the same argument about downranking sites like CNN or fox news.
The people who order counterfeit pills from "canadian pharmacy" sites probably don't consider those sites spam and could plausibly argue that they shouldn't be downranked.
How could you make the same argument? CNN and Fox News are allowed to report on things that the Government does not want it to and they can say things that the Government would not want them to say. I mean CNN and Fox News are on different sides and report on things very differently, whereas Russian state propaganda follows the exact same line and messaging. I'm sure you would agree CNN and Fox News do not have the same messaging or agenda?
You can plausibly make the same argument about downranking sites like CNN or fox news.