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YouTube Mysteriously Restores Crypto Billionaires’ Attack Ad Against Katie Porter

YouTube restored an attack ad against Katie Porter that’s running ad nauseam for users in California right now after it was pulled Sunday for violating the video-sharing site’s policies. The ad, purchased by a political action committee called Fairshake, is being bankrolled by several prominent names in the world of crypto. The weird part? It’s not clear why the ad was briefly banned. Crypto Exchanges Restrict Withdrawals“Who is Katie Porter? A fake and an accomplished actor,” the narrator of the ad claims. “That’s from…

Winklevoss Twins Donate $4.9 Million to Crypto Group Trying to Influence 2024 Election

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have donated $4.9 million to the political action committee Fairshake, according to new filings with the U.S. Federal Election Committee. It’s just the latest windfall for Fairshake, which is spending millions to run attack ads against Katie Porter, a Democrat who’s running for Dianne Feinstein’s old U.S. Senate seat in California.What Drew Noomi Rapace to Constellation?The new donation from the Winklevoss twins, first reported by Crypto Telegraph Wednesday, comes after huge players in the…

Who Helped Finance Musk’s Twitter Purchase

The banner hung above the New York Stock Exchange back in 2013 when the company first went public. Now that the company is private again, there’s quite a few ex-stock holders who are hoping to see a return on their investment in Elon Musk.Photo: Christopher Penler (Shutterstock)While Elon Musk’s massive $44 billion buyout of Twitter might seem like a one-man show, it’s really a kind of Suicide Squad of big tech moguls and financiers coming together in a strange rogue’s gallery reunion. Not only were Musk’s personal rich