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Our EDM team also investigates suspected scrapers to learn more about what they’re doing and make our systems stronger. We’ve taken a variety of actions against data misuse. These can include sending cease and desist letters, disabling accounts, filing lawsuits against scrapers engaging in egregious behavior and requesting companies that host scraped data to take them down.
How We Combat Scraping | Meta
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Pick a rickety thing, bet on it collapsing, give it a gentle poke, watch it collapse and collect your winnings.
FTX Had Some Luna Trouble
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If this sounds familiar, it is broadly similar to the trade that Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. did earlier this year to sell stock. In each case, there is a weird instrument that looks like a convertible security, and a big “investor” who is buying most or all of it. But in each case, the buyer is not really set up to be a long-term investor in the company: The investor is getting the stock in installments, at a discount to market value, and selling each installment to retail investors on the stock exchange. And the investor is getting paid a nice fee for structuring the trade, giving the company the money upfront, and generally obscuring what is happening. “We are selling $365 million of stock to retail investors to raise $300 million” just sounds less good than “we are selling a $340 million convertible with a 30% conversion premium to a big investor.”
A Stock Fund That Can’t Go Down - Bloomberg
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