What’s Behind The Unusual DMCA Notices From “Crowdstrike”?
In the wake of the disatrous Windows update of July, 2024, several mysterious DMCA notices sent to Google, apparently form Crowdstrike
Takedowns: Olympic Edition
Lumen has identified new signs of a coordinated and potentially automated fraudulent DMCA takedown campaign relating to articles about a Russian Olympian. Building on work done by past Lumen team members and documented in previous Lumen blog posts, the evidence presented here sheds light on previously unreported tactics that may be used in attempts to suppress unfavorable information.
Tell Them To Bring Out The Whole Ocean
A standard DMCA notice from an OnlyFans performer leads to the de-indexing of some unrelated science & environment webpages
New Features For Researchers
Lumen adds two new features for research: a search improvement and a notice watch list
Lumen Researcher Interview Series: Professor Jon Penney
the Lumen teamn chats with Professor Jon Penney about how Lumen has been part of his work.
Twitter Submissions To Lumen
Investigative report on reputation management highlights continued abuse of copyright and other laws to manipulate online media
Earlier this week, on February 17 2023, an investigative news report about Eliminalia, a Spanish reputation management firm made headlines. The leaked documents in the report revealed that Eliminalia “worked for scammers, spyware companies, torturers, convicted criminals and others in the global underworld to hide public-interest information” under the guise of being a service that claimed “to remove unwanted and erroneous information” for clients.
A Russian oligarch is still trying to erase himself from the internet (and it’s working)
Further research into the organized use of "weaponized" DMCA notices to manage online reputations
Notice in Lumen reveals Indian Government’s attempt to remove references to BBC’s documentary titled ‘India: The Modi Question’
A notice contributed to Lumen by Twitter as a part of Twitter’s transparency efforts revealed that on January 21, 2023, India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting sent Twitter an online content blocking order requiring the removal of fifty tweets that discuss ‘India: The Modi Question’, BBC’s recent documentary critical of PM Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat communal riots, where more than 1000 people were killed. Twitter has withheld the tweets in India in response to this request. The order includes tweets made by multiple members of the Indian Parliament, journalists and news channels.
