The Lawfare Project, representing a group of Spanish Jews, filed several take-down notices with Google LLC after identifiying content in Google search results that included extreme and defamatory racism against the Jewish people.
Google’s lawyers examined the complaints and, subsequently, various examples of antisemitic content identified in the notices are now blocked from appearing in Google searches in Spain, the Lawfare Project explained in a release.
Articles published by the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website promoting extreme racism against Jews and others, will now not appear in results, among other examples.
To the best of the knowledge of the parties involved, this is the first time that Google has blocked illegal content against the Jewish people based on defamation complaints.
Google likewise recently announced changes to its policies on racist and extremist content on YouTube, but those changes do not affect the appearance of extreme content in Google search engine results.
