They haven't sorted it out, but it's also fundamentally not really something that Google can sort out. Sure they can. They choose not to, for obvious reasons

They haven't sorted it out, but it's also fundamentally not really something that Google can sort out. Sure they can. They choose not to, for obvious reasons. If they were able to confirm, after the outcry, that the takedown claim was "abusive" -- by whatever criteria -- then there's no reason they couldn't have done that before they outcry. But the cost of doing that would start to chip away at, well, you know what.