💬 Quoted…​​ “The eight defendants have, for years, promoted themselves as trustworthy stock-picking gurus. In reality, they are seasoned stock manipulators.”

• The DOJ and SEC charged seven social media influencers yesterday with using Twitter and Discord to perpetuate an alleged pump-and-dump stock scheme, and an eighth for aiding and abetting the scheme by promoting these "skilled traders" on his podcast. The group illegally earned over $100 million, the charges allege.

🚫✈️ Number of the Day: 25 = the minimum number of Twitter accounts suspended yesterday for tracking the planes of government agencies, billionaires, and high-profile individuals. They include an account that tracked the flight patterns of Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who said last night that the suspensions were handed down for “doxxing real-time locations.”

🤯 Did You Know?... Pac-Man earned an estimated $6 billion worth of quarters in its third year of release (1982). That's more than the combined amount of money spent in Vegas casinos and US movie theaters that year.

📖 Worth a Read: The woman who made online dating into a science → (The Atlantic)