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In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen. The short of it:

The article looked bad on Pollen's founder, Callum Negus-Fancey. He was ultimately responsible for lying to staff, not paying salaries, the missing pension contributions, and the unpaid health insurance for US employees. The story was so bad that the BBC created a documentary titled Crashed: $800M Festival Fail .

And then there was the $3.2M dobule charge for customers, manually initiated by CTO Bradley Wright, detailed extensively in the documentary Crashed: $800M Festival Fail . That double charge would have been trivial to reverse, but the reversal never happened, customers never got their money back, and the postmortem of the incident was never released to staff. Four years later, Pollen and Callum Negus-Fancey are attempting to erase this shameful story from the public record. The article is my original writing, and thus I am the copyright holder of it. So imagine my surprise when I was notified that Google removed the article from its search results thanks to a copyright infringement claim it received:

It seems that anyone can file a bogus copyright claim to get an article they don't like removed from Google's search index. This happened in this case. I have no information on who filed the copyright claim. Even less so on who claims to be the copyright owner? Because I am the only possible copyright owner!

And Google has gone ahead and removed my article about Pollen's shameful collapse from its search results.

I have the option to appeal, which I have done so.