Wikipedia and Google looked like innocent serial killers

Nathaniel White killed six women in New York in the early 90s. But he's not the Nathaniel White you'll see in a Google Images search of his name.

He is also not the man who for two years appeared in an image on the Wikipedia page and was described as a serial killer, along with descriptions of his victims, including a 14-year-old and many mothers.

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The man in these pictures is not a serial killer and has never been to New York. But his image has been circulating on the Internet for years, on Wikipedia, on Google and in various news about the murders. One mistake led an irrelevant man in Florida to live in constant fear of revenge.

Ξεκίνησε όταν το πρόγραμμα Discovery Channel "Evil Lives Here", που προβλήθηκε στις 13 Αυγούστου του 2018, έδειξε μια λάθος εικόνα του White σαν κατά συρροή δολοφόνο. Η εικόνα εμφανίστηκε μόνο για μια στιγμή, αλλά από εκεί και μετά προστέθηκε στη Wikipedia και εξαπλώθηκε στο Google Images. Μέχρι την Πέμπτη, αν αναζητούσατε στο Google "Nathaniel White", θα εμφανιζόταν το πρόσωπο λάθος άνδρα μαζί με τα αποτελέσματα αναζήτησης για τον δολοφόνο.

White filed a lawsuit against Discovery last year, alleging invasion of privacy, defamation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The complaint includes the companies Google, , Twitter, Wikipedia Inc. many other search engines and companies .

Last month, a judge ruled that under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, those companies were not responsible for what happened to White. The case against Discovery is still on .

White's lawyer, Charles Barfield, Reported to Motherboard that this situation was "traumatic, emotionally, and psychologically" for his client.

"Η εικόνα του είναι παντού. Έπρεπε να μεταμφιέζεται. Και κατά έναν περίεργο τρόπο, η κατάσταση με τον COVID, πιστεύουμε ότι του έσωσε τη ζωή. Το να φοράς βοήθησε στην μεταμφίεση". Κάποτε τον πλησίασε ένας γείτονας που είδε το πρόγραμμα του Discovery και νόμιζε ότι ήταν ο κατά συρροή δολοφόνος.

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  1. It reminds me of the movie Brasil, if I remember correctly its name, with the moth that fell on the printer and instead of writing Patl it wrote Tatl.

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