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"Deceptive site ahead" error in website

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 One of my client's website  was flagged as deceptive by browsers like google chrome and firefox. Their business email communication is associated with this domain name, and this issue made it difficult for client communications. Emails stopped coming as the domain was listed as suspicious by google DNS.  While using google crawlers to make the website SEO  and to integrate google analytics, google will analyze the website in every aspect to make their search engine experience seamless. One of their analysis criteria is checking for social engineering attacks which include 3 types such as phishing, deceptive content, and insufficiently labeled third-party services. My client's website was flagged as a deceptive site by google because of the presence of social engineering.  To make the site interactive and to deliver the social media feeds directly through the website I integrated the social media handles of Facebook and Twitter. This was integrated as iframes in a specific part