New Features For Researchers the Lumen Team on June 14, 2024 Lumen adds two new features for research: a search improvement and a notice watch list
Lumen Researcher Interview Series: Professor Jon Penney The Lumen Team, Professor Jon Penney on May 25, 2023 the Lumen teamn chats with Professor Jon Penney about how Lumen has been part of his work.
Investigative report on reputation management highlights continued abuse of copyright and other laws to manipulate online media Shreya Tewari on February 23, 2023 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) Alana Prinzessin Zu Sayn Wittgenstein on January 26, 2023 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’ Lumen Team on January 23, 2023 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.
Oligarch's DMCA abuse seems to continue Alana Prinzessin Zu Sayn Wittgenstein on December 22, 2022 This week, I uncovered an additional 21,000+ suspicious-looking notices which seem to be related to the notices I have already identified. They are all putative copyright infringement claims submitted to Google between September 2020 and September 2022, demanding the removal of various articles—the majority of which are associated with the alleged criminal activities of a Russian oligarch
33,000+ DMCA notices sent in an apparent attempt to defend the reputation of an alleged Russian criminal--systematic abuse of the DMCA notice-and-takedown procedure Alana Prinzessin Zu Sayn Wittgenstein on December 12, 2022 33,000+ notices, some sent as recently as January 2021, all of which seek the removal of material critical of a controversial Russian oligarch and his alleged criminal activity.
Brazil Court Orders, the Election and the Removal of “Fake News” Alana Prinzessin Zu Sayn Wittgenstein on October 31, 2022 in the run-up ti the October 2022 Brazilian elections, Brazilina courts appear to be being more aggresisve about removing election-related misinformation from socialmedia
Lumen Researcher Interview Series: Ernesto van der Sar of TorrentFreak the Lumen Team on August 18, 2022 Lumen interviews Ernesto van der Sar of TorrentFreak