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Across the world, countries like Australia are starting to develop harsher laws targeting online platforms for issues ranging from hate to misinformation and beyond. The downside of those laws is becoming clear, though, as some sites say they’re being falsely reported. Archive.org — a nonprofit that was founded to build an Internet library — saves digital information like old webpages and more. In a blog post , the organization shared that they received over 550 takedown notifications from the European Union. The organization wrote: “In the past week, the Internet Archive has received a series of email notices from French Internet Referral Unit (French IRU) falsely identifying hundreds of URLs on archive.org as ‘terrorist propaganda’…It would be bad enough if the mistaken URLs in these examples were for a set of relatively obscure items on our site, but the French IRU’s lists include some of the most visited pages on archive.org and materials that obviously have high scholarly and...