YouTube was hit with a federal lawsuit Tuesday claiming that the company illegally discriminates against African American content creators.

The lawsuit, brought on behalf of YouTubers Kimberly Carleste Newman, Lisa Cabrera, Catherine Jones and Denotra Nicole Lewis, accuses the company of misapplying its restricted mode to videos whose titles or tags included phrases such as “Racial Profiling,” “Police Shootings,” “Police Brutality” and “Black Lives Matter.”

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