As Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is accused of manipulating the news feed on its social media platform comes word that Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is removing a journalist’s blog post critical of a big bank executive. BBC journalist Robert Peston has felt firsthand the impact of new rules in the EU that were designed to make people anonymous. The rules, we are now discovering, could also be used to make making bad actors and their questionable decisions anonymous. Google removal requests to BBC’s Peston In 2007 Peston penned an article on the BBC website titled “Merrill’s Mess,” a piece that explains how…
Google Removes Article Critical of Big Bank Chieftain
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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