How one of the world's major money laundering networks, linked to Cambodia's Huione Group, services online scammers using cryptocurrencies, Telegram, and more
and what you can do about it New York Times : How We Investigated Money Laundering, and What We Found X: Mike Forsythe / @pekingmike : How Scammers Launder Money and Get Away With ...
A look at the dispute between Bitcoin miners in Arkansas and residents, who say the noise is ruining lives, lowering property values, and driving away wildlife
Hundreds of documents detail the software bought by China to sift through its vast troves of surveillance data to “predict” who will become troublemakers
The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere …
Filing: Elon Musk raises $7.14B for his Twitter bid from Saudi Prince Alwaleed, Larry Ellison, Sequoia, VyCapital, Binance, a16z, and others; Ellison gives $1B
Elon Musk on Thursday disclosed a group of co-investors in his Twitter takeover. The names are impressive, but most of their check sizes aren't. Source: SEC.gov .
Filing: Elon Musk secures $7.14B for his Twitter bid from Larry Ellison, Binance, Sequoia, a16z, Saudi Prince Alwaleed, Fidelity, and others; Ellison gives $1B
Tesla chief raises $7bn from new investors for takeover of social media platform — Elon Musk has revealed that he has raised $7.14bn … Source: SEC.gov .
Nasdaq closes down 3.95% to a 52-week low led by tech stocks, including Tesla down 12.2%, Coinbase down 5.9%, Netflix down 5.5%, Apple down 3.7%, Meta down 3.2%
U.S. stocks fell sharply on Tuesday with shares selling off into the close, as investors dumped equities on fears of an economic slowdown.
Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval
- Twitter's board accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed.
Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations
Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations
Authorities in China have turned to sophisticated investigative software to track and silence obscure critics on overseas social media.
A deep dive on Tether, which issued 48B coins this year, as regulators struggle to understand its cash reserves, organizational structure, and other details
something money-market funds avoid.” By @ZekeFaux https://www.bloomberg.com/... Daniel Viola / @dannyviola : Great investigation into the likely Ponzi scheme that is Tether: http...
Investigation into Tether, which issued 48B coins this year, as regulators struggle to understand its cash reserves, organizational structure, and other details
A wild search for the U.S. dollars supposedly backing the stablecoin at the center of the global cryptocurrency trade …
US DOJ allows Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to return to China in a deferred prosecution agreement as part of which Wanzhou admitted to some wrongdoing
hours after the U.S. agreed to free a Huawei executive https://www.wsj.com/... Michael McFaul / @mcfaul : You're revealing your nerdy (and that's a compliment @stanford) ways to su...
US DOJ allows Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to return to China in a deferred prosecution agreement as part of which Wanzhou admitted to some wrongdoing
Deferred prosecution agreement offers company's finance chief an exit from Canada, where she has been fighting extradition to U.S.
State media says China is restricting online gaming for minors to three hours most weeks of the year, from 8pm to 9pm on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays
- The country is imposing its strictest limits yet on play time — Beijing is waging a campaign to groom productive youths
A look at a fossil fuel power plant in NY that has been restarted to mine crypto, as NY considers a bill for placing a three-year moratorium on crypto mining
The lofty prices of cryptocurrencies have investors sinking money into electricity generation, risking a backlash Tweets: @brianspegele , @the_moviebob , @bcappelbaum , @ayanaeliza...
Tencent-backed online healthcare startup Waterdrop is preparing for an IPO, seeking a valuation of ~$4B, with US among potential listing venues
Bloomberg : Tweets: @pekingmike Tweets: Mike Forsythe / @pekingmike : Boyu Capital is co-founded by the grandson of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin. It should be mentioned in...
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats
"brainwashing" — to which China is subjecting at least one million detained Uighur and other Turkic Muslims until they renounce Islam and their ethnicity. https://www.bbc.com/... h...
Teen's TikTok video about China's Muslim camps, bookended with beauty tips, goes viral with 1.4M+ views and ~500,000 likes, as copycats get millions more
A US teenager's TikTok video clip accusing China of putting Muslims into “concentration camps” has gone viral on the Chinese-owned social network.
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats
A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps …
How Devumi uses its 3.5M+ automated Twitter accounts, sometimes based on stolen social identities, to sell followers and retweets to 200K+ customers
Everyone wants to be popular online. — Some even pay for it. — Inside social media's black market.