In 2021, Qurium [es], an NGO dedicated to the defense of digital rights, accused Eliminalia of creating a network of fake websites with back-dated articles[10] and then spamming them with apparently legal DMCA takedown notices and GDPR complaints.

[11] These were intended to take down articles referring to corruption in Angola regarding Isabel dos Santos and Vincent Miclet.

In 2023, after a news leak of approximately 50,000 internal documents to French nonprofit Forbidden Stories, the company was accused of using 'blackhat tactics' to help clients in 50 countries, including torturers, convicted criminals, corrupt politicians, scammers and spyware companies to erase their past from the internet.

Eliminalia allegedly uses an array of underhanded tactics to stifle criticism of its clients, from intimidating journalists to churning out fake news on websites such as Taiwan Times, Mayday Washington, CNN News Today, and London Uncensored - all of which are connected to Maidan Holdings (Eliminalia's parent company).

[1] Using falsified copyright infringement notices, the company manipulates "right to be forgotten" laws, designed to protect people from malicious material online, by sending emails that appear to be from the European Commission to journalists and publishers of the unwanted articles.