What’s the Lumen Database?
Lumen is an independent research project studying takedown notices along with other legal removal requests and demands concerning online content. We collect and analyze requests to remove material from the web. Our goals are to facilitate research about the different kinds of complaints and requests for removal–both legitimate and questionable–that are being sent to Internet publishers, search engines, and service providers, and to provide as much transparency as possible about the “ecology” of such notices, in terms of who is sending them and why, and to what effect.
Our database contains millions of notices, many of them with a valid legal basis, some of them without, and some on the murky border. The presence of a notice in our database does not indicate a judgment among these possibilities, or that Lumen is authenticating the provenance of that notice or evaluating the validity of the claims it raises. Lumen in fact has no way of doing so.
(source https://www.lumendatabase.org/pages/about)
Then every time someone sends to Google or Bing a complaint for defamation, copyright or any general complaint, they will send a copy to Lumen.
Up until November 2023, Fintelegram has had thousands of negative reports collected in the last few years. We can see here from the report for each domain (with and without www).
Fintelegram.com
1510 report for Copyright/DMCA notices
53 reports for Defamation
3 Reports for Court Orders
www.fintelegram.com
2 reports for Defamation
1 report Court Order
And we can go back and check ALL the previous domains used by Fintelegram, like
Fintelegram.news
4 reports for Defamation
3 reports for Court Orders
2 reports for Copyright/DMCA
Fintelegram.eu
3 reports for Defamation
2 reports for Court Orders
Fintelegram.org
168 reports for Copyright/DMCA
2 reports for Defamation
Cyprofilers.com
1 report for Copyright/DMCA
1 report for Defamation
And all the other old domains used as well in the last years to defame people (and now offline):
fintelreport.com
cybersecprofilers.com
fintelagency.com
www.fintel-bureau.com
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