DEFAMATION MONSTERS

Businesses that remove negative Google reviews with defamation complaints
TELL THEM HEUTE LEIDER NICHT!

Check the Door

At the door

Monster Map

🏆 Top 25 Monstersⓘ

All
Restaurant
Bar
Café
Club
Health
Other
Hospitality
Personal Care & Fitness
Retail
Warming up the door… fetching the guest list 👹

Take the Monster Map with you

The whole monster list also lives in Google My Maps, so it can ride along in the Google Maps app.

  1. Open the Monster Map while signed in to Google (on a phone it opens in the browser, not the app).
  2. Tap the ☆ star under the map title.
  3. From then on it is in Google Maps under Saved → Maps.

The KML file imports into your own My Maps or Google Earth if you prefer a private copy.

What is a Defamation Monster?

In Germany, a business can ask Google to remove a review by claiming defamation—for example, that the reviewer was never a customer. If the reviewer doesn’t respond with proof in time, the review disappears. Since April 2026, Google shows how many reviews each business removed this way in the past 365 days.

Some businesses do this rarely. Others treat the defamation complaint like the door staff treats tourists in white sneakers. Any business that had at least 2% of its reviews removed is a Defamation Monster—the only question is how big it has grown on a diet of deleted reviews:

The reviews queue up outside. The monster decides who gets in. We keep the list.