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Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search

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Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search
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Image credit: Freepik via Freepik. Article by Ryan Whitwam. Ars Technica – July 30, 2025.

Google is fond of saying its mission is to “organize the world’s information,” but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization? 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. Most recently, an unknown bad actor used a bug in one of Google’s search tools to scrub the offending articles. […]

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