She claims to be slandered and today calls for justice. Former Argentine president and vice-president Cristina Kirchner has announced that she has taken legal action for defamation against internet giant Google. According to the local press, the search engine showed on May 17 the mention "thief of the nation" to replace the mention of her official position of vice-president of Argentina.
"I filed a petition to the court to request an urgent IT expertise against Google which will serve as evidence for a complaint," announced Cristina Kirchner on her Twitter account.
Como saben, el 17 de mayo Google publicó información falsa y offensiva contra mi persona, provocando un daño que debe ser reparado.
- Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) August 6, 2020"The damage caused is incalculable"
"When lies and defamation spread from mass distribution platforms, their circulation has no limits, we can no longer stop them and the damage caused to defamed people is incalculable", underlines Cristina Kirchner, head of the South American country from 2007 to 2015.
“This lawsuit also wants to raise a complex and profound question, typical of our time: is there a possible defense for people who are victims of this type of act perpetrated by a computer giant like Google? “Asks the former head of state.
Por eso, la acción judicial también pretende plantear una cuestión compleja y profunda, propia de los tiempos que corren: ¿Existe algún tipo de defensa para las personas que resultan víctimas de este tipo de acciones perpetradas por un gigante informático como Google?
- Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) August 6, 2020Respondent in nine cases, some of them for corruption
Through the request for expertise, Cristina Kirchner's lawyers want to know how long the offending mention has remained active, the number of times it has been seen and what interactions it has generated between Internet users. In the request, the defense of the vice-president indicates that “the reach of Google in the world is immeasurable, so that the damage generated on this occasion is, moreover, difficult to calculate without the results of an expertise”.
Cristina Kirchner, 67, elected vice-president in 2019 in a ticket with center-left Peronist president Alberto Fernandez, is implicated in nine cases, some of them for alleged corruption. The vice-president denounces a politico-judicial persecution orchestrated during the mandate of her successor, the former center-right president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) and a personal enmity of the former judge Claudio Bonadio, who died in February, who supervised most of the investigations against him.
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