NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A Lie From Google'

Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by ocdtrekkie on Friday April 27, 2018 @02:00PM (#16942820)

The "purported malicious website" is a trivial element though: This is a story about how hard it is to get something removed from Google. That story is still accurate, and still deserves to be public, but has been purged from the Internet nonetheless.

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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by danso on Friday April 27, 2018 @02:02PM (#16942842)

No, the story was about one businessman's purported difficulty in getting something removed from Google. For all we know, the difficulty was because his grievance was not as clear of a case as the original story claimed.

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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by jccalhoun on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:12PM (#16943912)

When I read the original story, I thought it was a story about a guy who made a business and the story was basically free publicity for his business. The fact that they retracted the story makes me think that the person's claims were overblown and he was just trying to get free publicity for his business

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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by on_and_off on Saturday April 28, 2018 @02:38AM (#16946381)

is it ?

There is a big difference between trying to get accurate or false information removed from the web.

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