“In 2022, more than 40% of the over 680 million URLs we received via our web form were not in our Search index and therefore, have never appeared in our Search results,”
Rightsholders sent Google takedowns for more than 270 million pages it had never shown anyone, and Google blocked them anyway. The DMCA does not require this. Google also accepts notices for live streams that have not happened yet and demotes flagged sites until they lose 89% of their search clicks. Nobody checks the accusations before the penalty lands.