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....
Internet Defamation & Content Removal
Seven Things You Should Do Right Now to Protect Your Online Reputation
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 Attorney Ali Arko Featured on Courthouse News Sidebar Podcast
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...
The FTC Will Fine Companies Soliciting Fake Online Reviews
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...
Reputation Management Tactics: PR vs. Online Reputation Management vs. Content Removal
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...
How to Remove a News Article from the Internet
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...
6 Ways to Remove Damaging Content From Social Media
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,...
How Anti-SLAPP Statues & Retraction Demand Laws Affect Defamation Lawsuits
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...
Fighting Defamation: How Law Firms Identify Anonymous Internet Users
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...
How to Remove Revenge Porn From Google
Navigating Google’s Revenge Porn Portal Revenge Porn is the sharing of intimate images without the subject’s consent. As technology increases accessibility to the Internet, revenge porn has also increased. Google has taken steps to combat this disturbing trend from...