{"id":2277,"date":"2026-10-01T16:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nitida.ai\/sin-categoria\/remove-news-article-google\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:33:36","slug":"remove-news-article-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nitida.ai\/en\/notes\/remove-news-article-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a news article be removed from Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nota-lead\"><strong>Yes, in many cases. Not in all of them. And &#8220;removing&#8221; almost never means what people think it means.<\/strong> Google takes news articles about a person out of its results when the information is inaccurate, inadequate, excessive or no longer relevant; the article stays published on the media site. For it to disappear from the media site, you have to ask the media site. And when neither is possible, there is a third option: making it stop weighing. I have spent ten years getting negative news articles removed from Google and from the outlets that published them, first for other companies in this sector and now in my own, and most cases are solved by one of those three routes. What never works is starting without knowing which of the three applies.<\/p>\n<h2>What &#8220;removing&#8221; a news article actually means<\/h2>\n<p>When someone writes to me saying &#8220;I want my name off Google&#8221;, they usually mean one of three things, and it pays to separate them from the start:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Deindexing.<\/strong> The article stops appearing on Google when someone searches your name. It stays on the newspaper&#8217;s site, and anyone who already knows it exists can still find it. This is what everyone knows as the right to be forgotten.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Removal at source.<\/strong> The media outlet takes the article down, removes your name (anonymisation) or updates it with what happened afterwards. It stops existing, or stops being about you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Displacement.<\/strong> When neither is possible, work is done so that what represents you rises and the article sinks to where nobody looks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are not mutually exclusive. In a typical case you request the first two at the same time and prepare the third in case Google or the outlet says no.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2632\" src=\"https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1.png\" alt=\"The three ways to remove a news article from Google: deindexing, removal at source and displacement, with who decides, how long it takes and whether it fixes what AI repeats.\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1520\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1.png 2400w, https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1-1024x649.png 1024w, https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1-768x486.png 768w, https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1-1536x973.png 1536w, https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1-2048x1297.png 2048w, https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1-180x114.png 180w, https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1-360x228.png 360w, https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1-640x405.png 640w, https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1-1366x865.png 1366w, https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1-1600x1013.png 1600w, https:\/\/nitida.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/note1-three-routes-1-1920x1216.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><figcaption>The three ways to &#8220;remove&#8221; a news article from Google, and what each one achieves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"nota-tabla\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>Deindexing<\/th>\n<th>Removal at source<\/th>\n<th>Displacement<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">What it achieves<\/th>\n<td>The article no longer shows on Google for your name<\/td>\n<td>The article disappears, loses your name or is updated<\/td>\n<td>What represents you comes first<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Who decides<\/th>\n<td>Google (and the data protection authority if you appeal)<\/td>\n<td>The media outlet<\/td>\n<td>Nobody: it depends on the work<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">How long<\/th>\n<td>Weeks; months if there is an appeal<\/td>\n<td>Days to months<\/td>\n<td>Months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Does it fix what AI repeats?<\/th>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Partly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h2>When Google removes a news article<\/h2>\n<p>Since the 2014 ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU (Google Spain v. Costeja), search engines in Europe have to remove results about individuals when the information is inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive in relation to the time that has passed. The GDPR and the national data protection laws of each member state build on that. The UK kept the same right after Brexit, under the UK GDPR. That is the theory. In practice, Google weighs four things:<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much time has passed.<\/strong> An eight-year-old article about a closed matter has a far better chance than an eight-month-old one. There is no fixed term; after three or four years the balance starts to shift.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whether the matter is resolved.<\/strong> A dropped investigation, an acquittal, a paid debt, a sanction served. When the ending was never published, or was published far less than the beginning, the request usually succeeds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your public role.<\/strong> A public office holder, a director of a listed company, someone with a public profile: Google demands more, because the public&#8217;s interest in knowing weighs against you. It can be done, but with different arguments and more patience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What the article is about.<\/strong> Serious and recent crimes are almost never removed. Civil, administrative, employment or personal matters usually are.<\/p>\n<p>And one detail that changes how the work is done: Google decides link by link. It can remove three out of five and keep two. That is why each link is documented separately, with its dates and its arguments, rather than in one general letter.<\/p>\n<h2>When it can&#8217;t be done<\/h2>\n<p>I would rather say it myself before someone else promises you otherwise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the article is recent and the matter is still open.<\/li>\n<li>If you are a public figure and the facts relate to your public role.<\/li>\n<li>If it is a serious crime with a final conviction and little time has passed.<\/li>\n<li>If what bothers you is an opinion or a criticism, not a fact. The right to be forgotten protects personal data; it is not a tool for removing opinions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In those cases Google will say no. What remains is the third route: correcting what is inaccurate, asking for what is missing to be added (the fact that the case was dropped, an acquittal, a correction) and making sure that what represents you today is seen first.<\/p>\n<h2>And removing it from the newspaper?<\/h2>\n<p>It can be requested, and it works more often than people think. What needs checking first is who you ask and how, so as not to trigger a <a href=\"https:\/\/nitida.ai\/en\/notes\/streisand-effect\/\">Streisand effect<\/a>. Under Article 17 of the GDPR, you ask the outlet to erase your data, rectify it or anonymise the article. Larger outlets have a data protection officer and a procedure. A significant share agree to update the article (adding that the case was dropped, for instance) or to remove the full name. Taking the whole article down is less common, unless it is false or clearly inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>This route is slower and less predictable than Google&#8217;s, but today it is the one that matters most, for a reason that did not exist three years ago: it is the only one that also cleans up what AI systems say. ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity do not read Google&#8217;s results; they read the pages. If the article is still published with your name, <a href=\"https:\/\/nitida.ai\/en\/notes\/what-chatgpt-says-about-you\/\">the AI will keep summarising it<\/a> even after Google has stopped showing it.<\/p>\n<h2>How long each route takes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Google<\/strong> usually answers its removal form within a few weeks. If it says no, you can take the case to your national data protection authority, which takes months and whose decisions are public.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media outlets<\/strong> take from a few days to several months. An email to the generic contact address rarely reaches anyone; a formal request to the data protection officer, with the legal basis and the documentation, does.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Displacement<\/strong> takes months, because what you want to be seen has to be built and positioned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to get a news article taken down: the order that works<\/h2>\n<p>Whether you are asking Google, the newspaper or both, the sequence is the same, and skipping a step is what turns a feasible case into a refused one:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Find everything first.<\/strong> Not just the link that hurts: the copies, the aggregators and the outlets that picked the story up. Otherwise you remove one link and leave four.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Classify each link.<\/strong> Which route applies to each one, removal at source, removal from Google\u2019s results, or neither, and whether asking could draw more attention than the article itself (the Streisand effect). The arguments are different, and so is the addressee.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ask the source and Google at the same time.<\/strong> Each request documented on its own, with dates, what has happened since and the legal basis. One general letter listing twenty links is the quickest way to a no.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If Google refuses, appeal.<\/strong> In Europe, to the data protection authority of your country, which can order Google to remove the result.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prepare the third route while you wait,<\/strong> so that a no from Google does not mean starting from zero.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keep checking afterwards.<\/strong> Articles that were removed come back on other sites, and new ones appear. I keep checking for six months after closing a case.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>If you are outside the European Union<\/h2>\n<p>The right to have a news article removed from search results because it is outdated exists in the EU, the EEA and the UK. It does not exist in the United States: there, Google does not remove results because they are old or no longer relevant, and that is the first thing to know before writing to anyone. What is available instead:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The publisher.<\/strong> Some US newsrooms review old stories about private individuals on request and anonymise or unpublish them (the Boston Globe\u2019s Fresh Start programme and cleveland.com were among the first), and even those that don\u2019t will often update an article with what happened afterwards or remove a full name when asked properly. It is the main route outside Europe.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Google\u2019s own policies.<\/strong> They cover specific content, not relevance: personal contact details, explicit images, content published to harass, and anything a court has ordered removed. A defamation judgment, for instance, is usually accepted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where the site is based.<\/strong> If the outlet that published the article is established in the EU, European data protection law applies to it whoever you are and wherever you live.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Displacement.<\/strong> When none of the above applies, the work is making what represents you today appear first. It takes months, and it is the only route that never depends on anyone saying yes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three typical cases, no names<\/h2>\n<div class=\"nota-caso\">\n<h3>The dropped case that never reached page one<\/h3>\n<p>An executive investigated in 2019. The investigation ran in three outlets. When the case was dropped in 2021, fewer outlets reported it, with less prominence, and that coverage never reached the first page of results. Five years later, his name on Google was still that investigation. Google removed the three links for lack of current relevance; two of the outlets agreed to update their article to say the case had been dropped. A couple of months later, the AI systems had stopped telling half the story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nota-caso\">\n<h3>The namesake<\/h3>\n<p>A lawyer with the same name as a person convicted in another region. There was nothing to remove here: the articles were not about her. The third route was used, professional profiles and listings with her details, until Google and the AI systems stopped mixing them up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nota-caso\">\n<h3>The paid debt<\/h3>\n<p>A businessman who appeared in 2018 in an article about a list of debtors and paid in 2019. Google removed the link in three weeks. The outlet took four months to anonymise the article, but it did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>What you need to get started<\/h2>\n<p>The links that worry you, if you have them (if not, everything published is located before anything is requested); a document proving you are who you say you are; and, if someone acts on your behalf, an authorisation. With that, any serious professional can tell you in writing, link by link, what is feasible, by which route and in how long, before you pay anything.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nota-cta\">\n<p>If you want to know what comes up about you and what can be done, start with a <a href=\"https:\/\/nitida.ai\/en\/digital-exposure-audit\/\">digital exposure audit<\/a>. If you already know what you want gone, we tell you in writing <a href=\"https:\/\/nitida.ai\/en\/content-removal\/\">what can be removed and what can&#8217;t<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nota-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/nitida.ai\/en\/contact\/\">Tell us your case<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<div class=\"nota-faq\">\n<details>\n<summary>Can I ask Google myself to remove a news article?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"nota-faq-r\">\n<p>Yes. Google has a <a href=\"https:\/\/reportcontent.google.com\/forms\/rtbf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removal form<\/a> under European data protection law, and anyone can use it. The difference lies in how each link is argued and in what you do when Google says no.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>If Google removes the article, does it disappear from the internet?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"nota-faq-r\">\n<p>No. It stays on the media site and in other search engines, and AI systems can still read it. For it to truly disappear, you have to act on the media site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Does this work for removing news articles about a company?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"nota-faq-r\">\n<p>The right to be forgotten in search engines is for individuals. A company has other routes: correction, intellectual property, unfair competition or brand protection, depending on the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Can a negative news article be removed if it is true?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"nota-faq-r\">\n<p>The right to be forgotten does not require the article to be false. It requires it to be no longer relevant, excessive or outdated. A true ten-year-old article about a resolved matter is often removed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How much does it cost to remove a news article from Google?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"nota-faq-r\">\n<p>It depends on the number of links and the difficulty of each one. What is reasonable is a closed price per link, in writing, before starting, and no charge for what isn&#8217;t removed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Is it possible to get a news article removed?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"nota-faq-r\">\n<p>Yes, in many cases, by one of three routes: Google stops showing it, the outlet takes it down or anonymises it, or it is pushed down by what represents you. Which one applies depends on how old the matter is, whether it is resolved, your public role and what the article is about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Can I get a newspaper article removed from the newspaper\u2019s website?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"nota-faq-r\">\n<p>Sometimes. Outlets agree to update an article or remove a name more often than they agree to delete it entirely; full removal is usually reserved for articles that are false or clearly inaccurate. The request has to go to the right person, with the legal basis and the documents, not to the generic contact address.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How long do news articles stay on the internet?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"nota-faq-r\">\n<p>Indefinitely. Online archives are not deleted, and an article does not expire or lose weight on its own. What changes over time is whether Google still shows it for your name and whether AI systems still read it, and both can be worked on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How do I get a news article written about me taken down?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"nota-faq-r\">\n<p>Locate every copy, decide the route for each link, ask the outlet and Google at the same time with documented requests, appeal if Google refuses, and prepare what should be seen instead. The full sequence is in the section \u201cHow to get a news article taken down\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"nota-fuentes\"><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/?uri=CELEX%3A62012CJ0131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CJEU judgment C-131\/12 (Google Spain v. Costeja), 13 May 2014<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/?uri=CELEX%3A32016R0679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regulation (EU) 2016\/679, Article 17<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/reportcontent.google.com\/forms\/rtbf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google&#8217;s removal form under EU data protection law<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edpb.europa.eu\/our-work-tools\/our-documents\/guidelines\/guidelines-52019-criteria-right-be-forgotten-search-engines_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Data Protection Board guidelines on the right to be forgotten in search engines<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/eur\/2016\/679\/article\/17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK GDPR, Article 17<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch\/answer\/9673730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Search Help: removing private information from Search<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/transcripts\/969886131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR, \u201cFrom Cleveland to Boston, newsrooms revisit old stories to offer a fresh start\u201d (February 2021)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, in many cases. 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