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  • Manafort Indictment: A Big Nothing Burger Emoji?

    Did Fox News fail to report former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s indictment in favour of a story about cheeseburger emojis? Today saw the first charges in the investigation led by former FBI director Robert Mueller, who is examining allegations of collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government. Yet while CNN…

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  • PR Battle of Brittain (Redux)

    Facebook deletes post criticising Arizona Senate candidate/former revenge pornster Craig R. Brittain after Brittain reports himself to website administrators I recently blogged about the PR battles of Craig R. Brittain, a former revenge porn website operator who last month announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate. From 2011 until 2013, Brittain operated the controversial revenge porn…

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  • The Ghost of Trump U.

    Google delists marketer’s analysis of Trump University sales letter after friend of deceased Donald Trump ghostwriter files copyright claim Trump University, founded in 2004 by its presidential namesake, was an unaccredited real estate programme aimed at budding investors. Before and after its closure in 2010, the New York-based programme faced repeated allegations of illegal business…

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  • Boing Boinged

    Boing Boing cites my blog post about Medicare scammer’s takedown request source Earlier this month, I blogged about multiple copyright takedown requests sent by one or more Medicare scammers, claiming copyright of their names, life stories, and criminal records, in an effort to convince Google to delist reports of their criminal convictions from the U.S.…

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  • Blurred Stats (Part III)

    The U.K. Statistics Authority just censured Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders for “hugely” exaggerating rape conviction statistics – here’s a list of news outlets that published the bogus figures Last week, the U.K. Statistics Authority formally censured Saunders for “hugely” exaggerating the 2017 rape conviction rate. Via “CPS chief is blasted for claiming the number…

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  • Blurred Stats (Part II)

    U.K. Statistics Authority censures head of state prosecution service for “hugely” exaggerating rape conviction rate statistics source I recently blogged about how the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) frequently inflates the rape conviction rate with its annual Violence Against Women and Girls crime report. For instance, this year’s report boasts the “highest volumes ever recorded” of…

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  • Blurred Stats

    Annual Violence Against Women and Girls crime report by U.K. state prosecution service inflates rape conviction rate statistics for second year in a row source Last year, I blogged about how the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) inflated the rape conviction rate with its annual Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) crime report. In a…

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  • Seryan Mirzakhanyan©

    Medicare scammer claims copyright of his name, life story, and criminal record in effort to convince Google to delist reports about $5.4 million fraud conviction from U.S. Department of Justice website Seryan Mirzakhanyan, a 32-year-old Armenian-born scammer from California, who in 2016 was convicted of defrauding Medicare of $5.4 million, has filed at least three…

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  • Stockholmies

    Charity for self-exiled Turkish journalists living in Stockholm cites my blog post re: legal efforts by Turkey’s First Lady to scrub negative news stories about herself from the web Earlier this week I blogged about legal efforts by Turkey’s First Lady Emine Erdoğan to scrub negative news stories about herself from the web. The story has…

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  • First Lady of Lumen

    First Lady of Turkey Emine Erdoğan demands takedown of negative news reports That’s according to the Lumen Database, a website that collects and analyses online takedown requests. In April, the site uploaded a Turkish court order complaint Erdoğan sent to Google and WordPress demanding the removal of news reports described as “damaging” to the “personality…

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