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Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search | Google has fixed the bug, which it says affected only "a tiny fraction of websites."
Google has fixed the bug, which it says affected only “a tiny fraction of websites.”…
A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several years attempting to remove unflattering information about himself from Google's search index, and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation says he's still at it. Blackman has previously used tools like DMCA takedowns and lawsuits to stifle reporting on his indiscretion, but that campaign now appears to have co-opted part of Google's search apparatus. However, Freedom of the Press Foundation now says that a bug allowed an unknown bad actor to scrub mentions of Blackman's arrest from the Internet.
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