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Google pays an Australian woman after failing to remove defamatory ‘Ripoff Report’ results — twice.
ABC News in Australia reported that Dr. Janice Duffy settled with Google after winning two lawsuits alleging defamation — one in 2015 and one earlier this year.
The judge found Google liable for publishing snippets from the site Ripoff Reports, which profits by allowing people to post unvetted “complaints” about others on the site and surfacing them in Google Search. As the judge in Duffy’s last lawsuit noted, would change URLs to keep pages visible.
A 2021 New York Times report about the site noted that Google began downranking Ripoff Reports and similar sites.
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