With election day in Florida just two days away, congressional candidate Michael Carbonara finds himself in the hot seat over his potential involvement in efforts to suppress negative media coverage of him.
Several media outlets, including Florida Politics, WMCU, WLRN, and The Floridian, have seen bogus copyright infringement complaints filed against them with search engine Google. The complaints were filed to push Google to remove the articles from its platform.
Several of WMCU's and The Floridian's stories about Carbonara were temporarily pulled due to the false claims, but have since been reinstated.
“I couldn't find these entities," said Karen Post, an attorney with Trister, Ross, Schadler & Gold, PLLC, who filed an appeal with Google on WCMU's behalf. "I couldn't find any content that seemed related that allegedly WCMU would have copied from. The whole thing just seemed very suspicious.”-WMCU
Daniel Rivero, a reporter for WLRN who had his story pulled as a result of one of these bogus claims, addressed his concerns on YouTube.
In searching for the source of the filed complaints, it appears that all were filed for fictitious foreign companies rather than legitimate U.S.-based corporations.
*** We expect this post to also get flagged for copyright infringement.
Again, only stories regarding Michael Carbonara have been flagged. Coincidence?
If Carbonara is responsible for the campaign tactic of filing copyright complaints to suppress stories and potentially voting,...
With election day in Florida just two days away, congressional candidate Michael Carbonara finds himself in the hot seat over his potential involvement in efforts to suppress negative media covera...