The year in review: Lumen Statistics 2025
The Lumen team looks back at 2025 through the lens of Lumen website traffic analytics
A New Home For Lumen
Lumen is now housed at the Harvard Law School Library
Lumen Researcher Interview Series: Phineas Rueckert - Forbidden Stories
More Local News Caught in Flood of Unrelated Copyright Takedown Requests
A set of over 60,00 notuces in Lumen's database, ostensibly targeting Turkish escort sites, inadvertently sweep up local news URLs.
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.
