An Israeli District Court reversed a magistrate’s preliminary opinion and held that Google must remove search results that are clearly defamatory in nature. The case was brought by Ami Savir, an Israeli attorney who was mischaracterized as having committed five acts of unethical legal conduct because of a Google algorithm. Savir had represented the Israel Bar Association in disciplinary proceedings against the liable attorney, the facts of which were misconstrued in search results due to the way a post was tagged. The court held that any party that knowingly republishes defamatory material is itself liable for defamation. Google was aware that their algorithm defamed the attorney, but did nothing to remedy the algorithm and prevent further dissemination of the defamatory material.