Last week, the Supreme Court granted certiorari for two cases challenging Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The result of the Supreme Court’s review has the potential to change how big tech and social media giants moderate internet content on their sites....
Initiating a Lawsuit As our reliance on the internet grows, so do online scams. As a result, causes of action arising out of online activities are booming. People perpetuating online attacks frequently utilize pseudonyms, email addresses, cryptocurrency wallets or...
A positive internet reputation is an expected prerequisite for conducting business. Negative internet content, including negative reviews, can destroy an operation. Unfortunately, an easy way to attack a business is by leaving a FAKE negative review on the internet....
Billions of Google searches occur every day. Sources estimate that the average person conducts between three to four daily Google searches. While these statistics do not include searches occurring on Bing (2.96%) or Yahoo (1.51%), Google maintains about 92% of the...
KJK Internet Defamation & Content Removal Attorney Ali Arko was recently featured on Courthouse News Service's Sidebar podcast, in their episode titled “The Right To Be Forgotten.” Ali discussed current privacy laws in the United States, freedom of information and...
On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) put hundreds of companies on notice that they will face steep financial penalties if they are found to be promoting or soliciting fake product reviews. The FTC’s action comes long overdue, as both businesses and...
A Holistic Approach to Addressing Online Attacks In this series on reputation management, we have previously discussed online defamation, revenge porn, and how to handle online attacks by an anonymous person. In this article, we will discuss the various tactics that...
Have you ever been the subject of a damaging news article? Before the internet, when a news article was published, it was circulated and then discarded, available for viewing only in library archives. In the age of the internet, news is now published online in...
Content that is defamatory, damaging, private, infringing, or otherwise unlawful can be removed from social media. There are a variety of tactics, both legal and non-legal, that are effective in securing the removal of harmful content. In the age of cancel culture,...
Finding negative online content about yourself is extremely distressing. This effect can be amplified if you don’t know the identity of the person targeting you. The internet has made it easy for people to voice their grievances anonymously through the use of...