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On 20 August 2017, a blog post on the web site Science 2.0 reproduced a grisly news story out of Spain that opened as follows: Science 2.0 reason for reproducing this tragic account was an apparent protest against the practices of the British gutter press and recent legal changes affecting the presentation of Spanish news reports via Google: The accident referenced in that post did take place: 25-year-old Rocío Cortés was killed in a freak accident at Hospital de Valme in Sevilla, Spain on 19 August 2017. She was being taken into an elevator en route to her room after giving birth to her third child when the elevator began going up, even though Cortés had not been fully placed inside. Her head was subsequently trapped in the elevator shaft, killing her. Hospital officials attributed Cortés' death to a severe cranial trauma and said that the elevator had passed an inspection on 12 August 2017. Her family sued not only the hospital but the company that evaluated the elevator. However, Science 2.0 did not directly translate the Spanish news reporting; rather, they ran an online translation stating that Cortés' body was severed, an unclear wording that led to claims the unfortunate victim had been cut in half. Other news outlets reported more specifically that Cortés was decapitated or that her head was crushed. Science 2.0 elaborated on how their sharing the account of Cortés' death related to the site's ostensible subject matter: But besides not citing any specific examples of British news outlets misrepresenting the story of Cortés' fatal accident, Science 2.0 didn't demonstrate that her death had been obscured by Google News' lack of Spanish news in their newsfeed. A search of Google itself provided several examples of Spanish news sites' covering the story, and searching for Cortés' name turned up coverage of her death published by English-language news media outlets.
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