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Police arrest 150 suspects after closure of dark web’s largest illegal marketplace

The Verge

The site boasted some 500,000 users and facilitated around 320,000 transactions, reports the EU’s law enforcement agency, Europol, with clientele buying and selling everything from malware and stolen credit card information, to weapons and drugs. DarkMarket was taken offline earlier this year as part of an international operation.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

The lawsuit alleged that the social network “fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical ‘compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law.” It added that, unlike its competitors TikTok and Instagram, Twitter hasn’t struck a music licensing deal for the use of copyrighted music.

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How Facebook twisted Canada’s trucker convoy into an international movement

The Verge

But right-wing supporters have a wildly different view of events: figures like Tucker Carlson have portrayed the convoy as a working-class rebellion, and Trudeau’s response has been treated as enacting martial law, leading Elon Musk to tweet (and then delete) a meme comparing Trudeau to Adolf Hitler.

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