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Tech CEO's Negative Coverage Vanished from Google via Security Flaw


Journalist Jack Poulson accidentally discovered that Google had completely removed two of his articles from search results after someone exploited a vulnerability in the company's Refresh Outdated Content tool. The security flaw allowed malicious actors to de-list specific web pages by submitting ...

Journalist Jack Poulson accidentally discovered that Google had completely removed two of his articles from search results after someone exploited a vulnerability in the company's Refresh Outdated Content tool.The affected stories concerned tech CEO Delwin Maurice Blackman's 2021 arrest on felony domestic violence charges. In a statement to 404 Media, Google confirmed the vulnerability and said it had deployed a fix for the issue.

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