2024-04-20 13:06:54
The Chinese video social network TikTokfrom the company ByteDance, launched a new application, TikTok Lite, in four countries, including Spain, that will pay users to watch videos.
Released for phones Apple y Android, TikTok Lite can only be used by users over 18 years of age. In addition to Spain, it is currently available in France, Japan and South Korea.
TikTok Lite users will be able to “accumulate points by discovering new content or performing certain actions” in the app.
“The accumulated points can be transformed into a gift card or used to support creators,” TikTok added.
Very popular among young people, TikTok It has more than 1.5 billion users worldwide and for some moments has surpassed its rivals Instagram and Facebook.
It is regularly accused of spreading disinformation videos, dangerous challenges and pornographic images, or even of being a tool of espionage and propaganda in the service of Beijing. /AFP
Sam Bankman appeals cryptocurrency fraud conviction
Disgraced cryptocurrency superstar Sam Bankman Fried has appealed his 25-year prison sentence for fraud, according to a court document released yesterday.
During the sentencing hearing on March 28 before federal judge Lewis Kaplan, in New York, his lawyers indicated that he would appeal, which he did on April 1, paying $605, according to the ad hoc judicial form consulted by AFP.
“SBF”, as he was known at the head of the FTX platform, one of the largest in the world for the exchange of cryptocurrencies, was found guilty by a jury in November of seven counts in a trial for which the New York prosecutor, Damian Williams asked for between 40 and 50 years in prison.
In addition to his prison sentence, “SBF” received a penalty of 11 billion dollars in compensation for any affected clients.
Judge Kaplan noted in handing down the sentence that the young man “had never had a word of remorse for having committed a terrible crime.”
He claimed, with examples, that “SBF” had committed at least three acts of perjury when testifying during his trial, as well as witness tampering.
The 32-year-old entrepreneur apologized, admitting that he had “made a series of bad decisions.”
A billionaire before the age of 30, Bankman-Fried conquered the world of cryptocurrencies at great speed. /AFP
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