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As headlines about the Trump family’s “World Liberty Financial” crypto project appear in outlets like the New York Times, a scam website spoofing the project remains on the front page of Google search results. Blockchain data show people actively purchasing the token.

A page of Google search results with headlines about the project in The New York Times, CNBC, Wired, and others. The ninth result is a website for a crypto project called “World Liberty”, using the WLF branding and photos of Donald Trump, but it is a scam version. The result is highlighted, and the text “SCAM” is overlaid.

This is the same scam URL and token address promoted by the hackers who compromised Twitter accounts belonging to Lara and Tiffany Trump two weeks ago.

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FTX executive Caroline Ellison is seeking a sentence of time served for her guilty plea on seven charges pertaining to the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange. Her sentencing submission paints her as someone whose “moral compass [was] warped” by Sam Bankman-Fried.

The probation department is also recommending time served, with three years of supervised release. Like Sam Bankman-Fried, she’s hit the maximum of 43 points on the sentencing guidelines, which would equate to a life sentence.

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to the publications that stylize headlines and other content in ALL CAPS, but who use text-transform: uppercase instead of actually typing the headline in caps: i see you, i appreciate you, i love you

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Seen a couple takes about the Hachette case along the lines of “the Internet Archive should’ve stuck to just archiving the Internet and not testing new theories of copyright” and uhhh... I’m not sure what it is you think the Internet Archive does, outside of testing new theories of copyright.

People have gotten so used to the existence of the Internet Archive’s web archive that they forget how revolutionary and subversive it is. The idea that that is somehow safe while the book lending was not is completely flawed. They were just up against a more powerful group.

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