FBI: Americans aged 60 and older reported losing almost $3 billion to crypto fraud last year. In total, Americans reported being scammed out of around $9.3 billion via crypto, out of a total $16.6 billion in total reported Internet crime losses that year.

https://www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport/Reports/2024_IC3Report.pdf

#crypto #cryptocurrency

Yesterday, the European Commission slammed tech giants #Meta and #Apple for breaching the #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA – but then stopped short of sticking the landing with the low penalties. What does it mean for our #FundamentalRights and online experiences? 🤔

We unpack the mixed bag of takeaways in our full press release ⤵️ https://edri.org/our-work/press-release-commission-slams-apple-and-meta-for-breaching-the-digital-markets/

RIP First Amendment

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-student-visas-newspaper-op-eds-61595294?st=4xsjaY

Quoting Yisrael Frey: "People who say 'yes, but what's your solution?' don't really want to hear about the problem."

Yisrael Frey is a haredi journalist facing scrutiny and potential legal action in Israel for his social media posts. He is being investigated on suspicion of "incitement to terrorism" after he stated that a Palestinian harming an Israeli soldier or settler in the "apartheid territories" is a "hero fighting an oppressor."

[…] “If I’m a young Israeli and they educated me that the other is marked as dirt and dust and that you can go into his house in the middle of the night and take it apart and that you can force his wife and children to stand at checkpoints… and that you can break his hands and feet, it is not surprising that with the passage of time the authorities will succeed in transferring ‘the other’ to the Jew who is secular, who doesn’t like Bibi,”

https://thejewishindependent.com.au/the-left-wing-haredi-journalist-who-urges-palestinians-to-fight-back

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide
#NeverAgain #israelfascism
#OatmealQuotes

If you’re British and trans and feeling like everyone’s against you, take a look at the 1,600+ writers who have signed this letter of solidarity: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18p-rvgNitRKYs9C2PoIBC86Fb2ZQnBd8PzEfgGfnsKo/mobilebasic

Names on the list that made me smile included historian Fern Riddell, poet Nikita Gill, and comedians Sara Pascoe, James Acaster, Sophie Duker, and Aisling Bea.