Yoast adds duplicate meta robots on Web Stories

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Hi, here is the DOM on a web-story page with Yoast activated.
https://pasteboard.co/K4SRmqb.png
(image alt: Duplicate Meta Robots Tag)

I think it is conflicting with Web Stories plugin on this part
https://github.com/google/web-stories-wp/blob/main/includes/Discovery.php#L72-L76

Not sure if this is supposed to be fixed on Web Stories or Yoast.
Tested with another SEO plugin and it seems to work fine for Web Stories.

We weren’t able to reproduce this on WordPress 5.7.2, Yoast SEO 16.4 and Web Stories 1.7.2. The meta robots for a specific web story and the web-story content type was checked and only one meta robot is outputted.

However, you asked if it is possible to remove the robots meta tag from Yoast. You can do this by navigating to WordPress > SEO > Search Appearance > Content Types. For the option, Show Stories in search results?, choose ‘No’. We do not think this will provide the desired results.

Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict, is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty.

Please test this on your development or staging site, if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.

If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts

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Turns out it’s conflicting with my custom theme.

Decided to add

add_action( 'template_redirect', 'remove_robots_webstories' );

function remove_robots_webstories() {
    if ( is_singular( 'web-story' ) && function_exists( '\wp_robots' ) ) {
		remove_action( 'web_stories_story_head', 'wp_robots', 1 );
    }
}

on functions.php instead to remove the duplicate robots meta.

Thanks!