Adverse media removal

Adverse media is the catch-all term for negative coverage tied to your name: news articles, blog posts, forum threads, leak sites and entries in screening databases. Banks, employers and partners increasingly run an adverse media check before they deal with you, so a single damaging result can close doors quietly, without anyone telling you why.

What counts as adverse media

It ranges from a genuine news report that is now years out of date, to a hit piece built on a rumour, to a recycled story that other sites copied long after the original was corrected. Some of it is defamatory. Some of it is true but no longer relevant or in the public interest. Both kinds can often be dealt with, in different ways.

How we take it down

We start by mapping every place the story appears, including the copies and aggregators most people miss. Then we remove at the source where we can, using takedown, defamation and data-protection arguments, and de-index from search where the page itself has to stay. Corrected or retracted coverage often qualifies for removal under the publisher's own policies.

Honest expectations

Lawful, accurate reporting in the public interest is the hardest to move, and we will say so plainly rather than take a case we cannot win. When the underlying article cannot be removed, suppression and de-indexing still keep it away from the people searching your name.