🪢 The many escapes of Justin Sun

Today’s pick

The many escapes of Justin Sun. How does a crypto hype man stay ahead of regulators? He keeps running. (Christopher Harland-Dunaway / The Verge)

Chris Harland-Dunaway @ChrisHDeee

Here’s the story of Justin Sun’s many escapes as he built his crypto empire, as told to me by 15 current and former employees and drawn from hundreds of pages of leaked documents. Insider trading, Bitcoin taken from users, and the federal investigation:

theverge.comThe many escapes of Justin SunHow does a crypto hype man stay ahead of regulators? He keeps running.

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Italy fines Clearview AI €20M and orders data deleted. Another European privacy watchdog has sanctioned the controversial facial recognition firm, Clearview AI, which scrapes selfies off the Internet to amass a databased of some 10 billion of… (Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

Italy fines Clearview AI €20M and orders data deleted tcrn.ch/3MBFZfK by @riptari

tcrn.chItaly fines Clearview AI €20M and orders data deleted – TechCrunchAnother European privacy watchdog has sanctioned the controversial facial recognition firm, Clearview AI, which scrapes selfies off the Internet to amass a databased of some 10 billion of faces to power an identity-matching service it sells to law enforcement. Italy’s data protection agency t…

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The untold tale of how Facebook's cryptocurrency dream fell apart. It had the blue-chip partners, the tech and the right players. None of which could save it. (Hannah Murphy and Kiran Stacey / Financial Times)

Jan Chipchase @janchip

"Diem spent years trying to reverse engineer their project to fix all of its faults. But they could never fix being linked to Facebook. It was their original sin.” @FT long read on the failure of Facebook lead Diem

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From digital dollar to tackling illegal activity: Here's what's in Biden's executive order on crypto. U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday calling on the government to examine the risks and benefits of cryptocurrencies. (Ryan Browne / CNBC)

Ashish Singhal @ashish343

US wants to study crypto along these angles before it rolls out a policy * Consumer and investor protection * Financial stability * Illicit activity * U.S. competitiveness on a global stage * Financial inclusion * Responsible innovation

cnbc.comBiden just put out an executive order on cryptocurrencies — here’s everything that’s in itU.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday calling on the government to examine the risks and benefits of cryptocurrencies.

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TikTok Struggles to Find Footing in Wartime. The short-video app faces one of its biggest challenges since its launch five years ago, as it grapples with a heightened role in geopolitics. (Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal)

Liza Lin @lizalinwsj

1/ The war in Ukraine posed one of the biggest challenges to TikTok. The sudden acceleration of the conflict, and a huge influx of war-related content threw the company's content moderation into chaos. A thread about on TikTok handled it: w/ @raffaelehuang

wsj.comWSJ News Exclusive | TikTok Struggles to Find Footing in WartimeThe short-video app faces one of its biggest challenges since its launch five years ago, as it grapples with a heightened role in geopolitics.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine Crisis

• Saudi, Emirati Leaders Decline Calls With Biden During Ukraine Crisis. (Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal)

• Rich Exiles Put Dubai in Spotlight as World Chases Russian Money. (Ben Bartenstein / Bloomberg)

• Russia Has Used Thermobaric Weapons In Ukraine, U.K. Says. (Nicholas Reimann / Forbes)

• How the West Undermines Its Own Sanctions. (Casey Michel / The Atlantic)

• A tech executive is privately funding hundreds of soldiers to fight for Ukraine. (Makena Kelly / The Verge)

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