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DMCA As Censorship: Site Reposts Articles About Disgraced Researcher, Claims...
I first heard about the excellent site RetractionWatch via a segment on On the Media. The RetractionWatch site, put together by Reuters Health executive editor (and doctor) Ivan Oransky and...
View Article'Internet Lawyer' Charles Carreon Has A New Best Friend And He's An SEO...
The internet makes for some strange bedfellows. The fact that I can't think of any other examples right at the moment should not detract from this truism. Internet = strange bedfellows and we all know...
View ArticleDear Famous People: Stop Attempting Online Reputation Scrubbing; I Don't Want...
I've learned a couple of things in my three-plus decades on this planet. First, no matter how hard you try, you're going to piss people off. It's unavoidable, so you're best off not bothering trying...
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DMCA As Censorship: Site Reposts Articles About Disgraced Researcher, Claims...
I first heard about the excellent site RetractionWatch via a segment on On the Media. The RetractionWatch site, put together by Reuters Health executive editor (and doctor) Ivan Oransky and...
View Article'Internet Lawyer' Charles Carreon Has A New Best Friend And He's An SEO...
The internet makes for some strange bedfellows. The fact that I can't think of any other examples right at the moment should not detract from this truism. Internet = strange bedfellows and we all know...
View ArticleDear Famous People: Stop Attempting Online Reputation Scrubbing; I Don't Want...
I've learned a couple of things in my three-plus decades on this planet. First, no matter how hard you try, you're going to piss people off. It's unavoidable, so you're best off not bothering trying...
View ArticleSeattle Taxpayer Money Used To Bolster The Online Reputation Of Utility CEO
We've written previously about this online reputation management thing and how often it backfires. For some reason, there are people out there who somehow think that you can effectively hide your past...
View ArticleSeattle City Light Wants A Refund On Their Online Reputation Boosting Bill...
So let's say you're a highly-paid CEO of Seattle's publically-owned utility company, City Light, and you've just been ironically kicked around in the media for a couple of weeks because you spent...
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Reputation Management Bro Destroys His, And His Client's, Reputation With...
I have to assume the so-called "reputation management" business is working for someone, but so far all we have to go on are the spectacular flaming wreckage left behind by fools who insist on punching...
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Patrick Zarrelli Claims He's Filing Criminal Charges Against Us Because He...
So... a week and a half ago, we published an article, written by Tim Cushing, discussing the rather poor decisions of a self-proclaimed "reputation management" guy named Patrick Zarrelli. Zarrelli, it...
View ArticleWe Have The 'Criminal Charges' Patrick Zarrelli Claims He Filed Against Our...
Earlier this week, we noted that "website reputation management" dude, Patrick Zarrelli had sent us a large packet of papers claiming that he had "filed criminal charges and bar complaints in seven...
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Florida Bar Laughs Off Nonsensical 'Bar Complaint' By Reputation Management...
Remember Patrick Zarrelli? Of course you do. He's the dude bro, who claimed to run a "reputation management" service, who was hired by an attorney named Gary Ostrow to "clean up" his Google mentions....
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The Latest In Reputation Management: Bogus Defamation Suits From Bogus...
Pissed Consumer has uncovered an apparent abuse of the court system by reputation management firms. Getting allegedly defamatory links delisted by Google requires a court order, which is something...
View ArticleLet's All Talk About The Stuff That UC Davis Spent $175k Trying To Keep Off...
As you'll probably recall, back in late 2011 a group of UC Davis students held a protest on campus as part of the Occupy movement. The lasting memory from that protest was one UC Davis police officer...
View ArticleUC Davis 'Apologizes' For The Reputation Management Industry's Hyperbole And...
A week or so back, we had some fun discussing the 2011 incident in which campus police for UC Davis calmly pepper-sprayed the shit out of some seated students, because young people are scary. We did...
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Reputation Management Revolution: Fake News Sites And Even Faker DMCA Notices
Pissed Consumer has uncovered another apparent case of bad reputation management, this one revolving around bogus websites facilitating bogus DMCA takedowns. It previously exposed a pair of lawyers...
View ArticleAdWeek Articles On Google Ad VP Torrence Boone Hit With Bogus DMCA Notices...
It appears there's still no shortage of quasi-reputation management efforts being deployed in the form of bogus DMCA takedowns issued by bogus "news" websites. Pissed Consumer uncovered this shady...
View ArticleFormer UC Davis Chancellor Katehi Way More Obsessed With Her Online...
Earlier this year, we discussed how UC Davis detailed in a report that it spent $175k with a reputation management firm to try bury the 2011 pepper-spraying incident that has become so infamous, as...
View ArticleBogus Defamation Lawsuit With Fake Defendant Results In Negative Reviews Of...
Earlier this year, complaint site Pissed Consumer noticed a disturbing new trend in the dark art of reputation management: unnamed rep management firms were using a couple of lawyers to run bogus...
View ArticleBogus Defamation Lawsuit Using Fake Plaintiff And Defendant Challenged By...
More evidence has surfaced that the online reputation management business is shady as all hell. Previously, we've covered the use of fake websites used to generate bogus DMCA takedowns by copy-pasting...
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