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Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to 8 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud, conspiracy

Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to 8 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud, conspiracy

Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to eight different counts of wire fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy before a U.S. federal court in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday. U.S. prosecutors allege that under Bankman-Fried’s direction, FTX, once considered one of the largest and most-trusted cryptocurrency exchanges, transferred billions in customer assets to his trading firm, Alameda Research. If convicted of these charges, Bankman-Fried faces up to 115 years in prison. A trial… Source link

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The many conspiracy theories of Kyrie Irving

The many conspiracy theories of Kyrie Irving

When a conversation between Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant became a viral video before the 2019 NBA All-Star Game, with online sleuths speculating that they were aligning their free-agency plans, which led them to the Brooklyn Nets four months later, Irving neither denied nor confirmed the contents of their discussion. Instead, Irving went on the defensive. “Anybody’s stories or social media, I’m completely off it,” he said. “I just don’t have the care for it. It ruins locker rooms, it ruins… Source link

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Google, Apple Want Consumer Search Conspiracy Suit Gone

Google, Apple Want Consumer Search Conspiracy Suit Gone

By Bryan Koenig (June 28, 2022, 7:02 PM EDT) — Google and Apple are fighting to toss a consumer suit from the same attorneys, and with virtually identical allegations, as a Google Search advertiser accusing Google of paying Apple not to produce its own search engine, arguing that the consumers in the latest case can’t show harm from using a free product. Friday’s motion to dismiss in the Northern District of California hews closely to the technology giants’ dismissal bid against a… Source link

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61% of Trump voters agree with idea behind ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory

61% of Trump voters agree with idea behind ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory

A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that more than 6 in 10 Donald Trump voters (61%) agree that “a group of people in this country are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants and people of color who share their political views” — a core tenet of the false conspiracy theory known as the “great replacement.” Less than a quarter of Trump voters (22%) disagree with that statement. So-called replacement theory has been covered extensively in the days following the May 14… Source link

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Fed up with Google, conspiracy theorists turn to DuckDuckGo – The Denver Post

Fed up with Google, conspiracy theorists turn to DuckDuckGo – The Denver Post

By Stuart A. Thompson, The New York Times Company On an episode of Joe Rogan’s popular podcast last year, he turned to a topic that has gripped right-wing communities and other Americans who feel skeptical about the pandemic: search engines. “If I wanted to find specific cases about people who died from vaccine-related injuries, I had to go to DuckDuckGo,” Rogan said, referring to the small, privacy-focused search engine. “I wasn’t finding them on Google.” Praise for DuckDuckGo… Source link

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Fed Up With Google, Conspiracy Theorists Turn to DuckDuckGo

Fed Up With Google, Conspiracy Theorists Turn to DuckDuckGo

Free the Will PatriotsForwarded from Silence Dogood, MBA I just started using DuckDuckGo today, and needless to say it is like being brought into the 21st century! Tamara Keller GO ON DUCKDUCKGO SEVERAL WEBSITES ARE REPORTING DICK CHENEY ARRESTS Patricia W If you go on DuckDuckGo we pull right up! Trump… Source link

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Which search engine serves up the most conspiracy theories?

Which search engine serves up the most conspiracy theories?

One in five adults in the U.S. believe their own country played a role in the 9/11 attacks. One in three believe Big Pharma is hiding harmful side effects caused by vaccines. Thirty-seven percent believe the world is ruled by a cabal of people who go by the name the New World Order. All, of course, are wrong. But where do they get their misguided beliefs? A new study by academics across Europe analyzes the role search engines play in perpetuating untruths. “We know web search is a massively… Source link

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Yandex Named Most Likely Search Engine to Promote Conspiracy Theories – Study

Yandex Named Most Likely Search Engine to Promote Conspiracy Theories – Study

Russian search engine Yandex is more likely to promote conspiracy theory-related content in its search results than any other major search engine, according to a new study published Wednesday. More than half of Yandex’s first-page search results for controversial terms such as “flat earth” and “George Soros” were for pages that promoted conspiracy theories, researchers at the University of Zurich found. That was a significantly higher share than among the results… Source link

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Rare Trump appearance sparks odd conspiracy

Rare Trump appearance sparks odd conspiracy

Former president Donald Trump has made a rare public appearance with his first speech in months addressing US politics. However there was one curious detail that detracted from his address to a sold-out crowd of about 1,250 people on Sunday (local time). Trump told the crowd next year’s midterm elections would be a battle for the “survival of America” and lapped up applause from Republican supporters as he described the US as “being destroyed before our very own eyes” since he was voted out.

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