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Re:Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs by lotsofpulp on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:22AM (#28326879)
Who was defrauded? “Journalists” and “journalism” websites want clickbait.

The whole purpose is to give the “journalist” just enough plausible deniability to write a clickbait headline, which benefits CNBC/BBC and the person selling within their family.

As far as I know, misleading “news” is not illegal.

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Re:Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs by MD87 on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:30AM (#28329095)
No-one needs to be defrauded to make out an offence of Fraud in the UK.

"Fraud by false representation" happens when someone dishonestly makes a false representation with the intent to make a gain for themselves or another. Making up a news story to flip NFTs would almost certainly amount to a crime of fraud by false representation.

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Re:Twelve-year-old boy makes £290k from whale NFTs by em-bee on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:33AM (#28327599)
it's fake news
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