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Broken link, redirects to a YouTube channel.

Not for me. I see the expected news article.

I confirm that it redirects to YouTube. Some weird A/B testing or per region content selection?

I got "Access Denied" on my arm of that test.

I got access denied, and then it worked after a refresh.

I got a "disable adblocker" popup from the Admiral system

I think that's how some US media outlets implement GDPR-related blocking for EU users.