Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Hired hands in an underground takedown market are charging up to $5,000 to scrub reporting from social media by filing fake copyright claims. Marika Dudina from the Georgian media outlet Monitori explains how their YouTube channel suddenly disappeared after false copyright claims against three of their videos. Monitori decided to dig deeper - and uncovered how copyright reporting systems have become a lucrative business for censorship.

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