Luigi Mangione fan art, merch, and photos are getting hit with bogus copyright takedown requests all over the internet. Artists and journalists affected. Very difficult to tell who is doing it, but one company says they received a request from United Healthcare:
https://www.404media.co/copyright-abuse-is-getting-luigi-mangione-merch-removed-from-the-internet/
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