Title: Melania no more: why did Donald Trump take down his wife's website? | Melania Trump | The Guardian
Headings: Melania no more: why did Donald Trump take down his wife's website?
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Melania no more: why did Donald Trump take down his wife's website?
Dan Tynan in San Francisco
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As a nominee for the presidency, the only way to control your online reputation is through your statements and actions

Content: Nor is Trump is the only politician to allegedly attempt to scrub things from the web that might be considered damaging to one’s reputation. In 2013, the UK’s Conservative party was accused of purging the party’s website of content published between 2000 and 2010, allegedly to remove evidence of unfulfilled campaign promises. It also ensured Internet Archive had not indexed the pages. One of the deleted pages detailed a speech that David Cameron, then prime minster, made at Google in which he said that “political leaders will have to learn to let go of the information that we have guarded so jealously”. Multiple US politicians, including current vice-president Joe Biden and Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence, have been caught editing their own Wikipedia entries to suppress unflattering information. Pence allegedly edited his page to remove a reference to a former job as a conservative talk radio host, and adding awards, senior job roles and glowing summaries of his political career. Members of British parliament have been similarly snagged. Why social media is the real Trump card in the US election
John Naughton
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If the Trumps were attempting to hide this information, they went about it the wrong way, says Aaron Minc, an internet defamation attorney who specializes in removing things from the net. If Trump really wanted to remove this information, he would have deleted the site before having it redirect to Trump.com, says Minc, and then notified Google to remove it from its search engine cache. “There are ways to permanently delete things from the net, but you have to act quickly and do the right things, especially if you’re under public scrutiny,” he says.