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Financial firm Metaplanet has finalized an agreement with BTC Media to establish a Tokyo-based branch of Bitcoin Magazine, aimed at engaging Japanese readers in the cryptocurrency space.

Project Liberty has teamed up with SOAR to propose a user-driven alternative to centralized social media platforms.

Following a conflict with local authorities over accusations of spreading disinformation, the social media platform X is set to relaunch in Brazil. Elon Musk had to comply with court orders to unblock access to the platform. In legal battles with independent judicial systems, it becomes clear that charisma and wealth don't protect anyone from accountability.

Fidelity, an investment company, reports that the value of X has plummeted by 4х since Elon Musk's purchase. Musk bought the social platform for $44 billion, utilizing personal funds, loans, and other resources, before taking the company private—removing it from the stock market.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) criticized several social media companies, including Meta, Google, and ByteDance, for collecting and processing user data without sufficient oversight or transparency. The collected data often includes age, gender, language, income, and other information of interest to advertisers.

Devin Finzer, CEO and co-founder of OpenSea, revealed on the social media platform X that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a Wells Notice to the NFT marketplace, signaling that the SEC may pursue legal action against OpenSea.

Mark Longo, whose late pets Peanut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon became the focus of social media uproar, is now launching a token of his own.

Trump Media & Technology Group, Donald Trump’s media-focused company, is exploring the creation of its own crypto payment service.

Binance, a leading crypto exchange by trading volume, announced the launch of a new asset, BFUSD. The news has been actively shared on social media, with many users on X assuming BFUSD is a stablecoin.

Caitlyn Jenner, former Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete, media personality, and newly appointed Secretary of Transportation, faces a lawsuit from investors.

Microsoft is experimenting with a new AI feature called "Intelligent Media Search," enabling users to search for audio and video files by their content. The AI model transcribes the content into text, which can then be indexed and searched.

The South Korean government has reached out to social media platforms, including the messaging app Telegram, demanding the removal of deepfake sexual content from their servers. Officials have identified Telegram as a major conduit for the distribution of such material.