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How Fake DMCA Requests Are Wiping Real Content from Google Search Results

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Fraudulent DMCA takedown requests are successfully removing legitimate original content from Google Search, exploiting a weakness in Google's verification process.

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SEOFOMO News reports that Google's DMCA removal request system has become a vulnerability for negative SEO abuse over the past year, with legitimate publisher content being delisted due to fraudulent takedowns that Google is approving without proper verification of authenticity.

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