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Public statement source · YT281
Dr Taban WIPED BAD REVIEWS
Records his claim that negative reviews of the surgeon have been removed across three review platforms, with an express refusal to attribute the removals to anyone, and his view that the platforms bear responsibility equal to or greater than the surgeon's.
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The majority of the negative reviews about Dr. Tibon on Google, Real Self, and Yelp have been completely wiped clean and removed. Whether this is Dr. Tibon or a private party or just the review sites taking them down on their own, I cannot say that for certain factually.
The subject and the platforms named are all tracked entities, and the statement describes the factual grievance underlying the two review-platform actions. Its second sentence is an express refusal to attribute the removals to anyone, and the two sentences must be kept together.
Why this classification: It names tracked defendants and states the grievance, but describes platform conduct rather than his own filing conduct, and no case, court or docket appears anywhere in the video.
And when I tried to put my review on Real Self, showing receipts from the doctor's office, the photos, it was never even posted in the first place. And you cannot have a more legitimate review than that. So, these platforms are really crooked, really evil, and as I've said many times, should be held as equally responsible for botching people as the doctor himself. If anything, they're more responsible.
A statement of the theory of liability against the review platforms, that they are as responsible as the surgeon or more so, which is the theory the two tracked platform actions pursue. He marks it as a position he has stated many times.
Why this classification: It states a theory of liability rather than an act of filing, and the platforms are identified by trade name only, with no case, court or docket referenced.
A case link records a researched connection between the video and a docket record. It is not a finding that the video caused, or was caused by, any filing.
2025-05634 — Tufano v. GoogleTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: names Google and RealSelf and describes the removal of negative reviews of the surgeon, the grievance this action pleads; no case, court or docket is named in the video.
3:25-cv-01574 — Tufano v. Google LLC et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:32 researched as bearing on this case: states the theory that the review platforms are as responsible as the surgeon, the theory this federal action pursues; no case, court or docket is named in the video.