[Python] Python Requests Returns Encoded Data

I have an API that is running on my server that I access using the requests module. The code that was working was:

import requests
response = requests.post("https://example.com/api/v1/endpoint")
print(response.json())


which would return:

{"status":200,"message":"Successfully refreshed"}
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Recently I restarted the server. I did not make any changes to my code but now the response is

(\xb5/\xfd\x04Xd\x14\x00F\xa6r0\x90'i\x03\xff\xff\xff\x7f}\xf9!\xb6Ek\xb4v\x98....
​

If I import a different module from curl_cffi import requests, I get the normal response. Why is requests module returning the encoded string now?

Edit: This seems to be an issue with other URLs too when accessed from this server, not just my own domain.

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