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🟡 NEW: Tucker Carlson's executive producer Justin Wells is also out at Fox News, @maxwelltani reports.
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🟡 SCOOP: MSNBC has quietly taken three of its Muslim broadcasters out of the anchor’s chair since Hamas’s attack on Israel last Saturday amid America’s wave of sympathy for Israeli terror victims, @maxwelltani reports.
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"Holy shit, this kid is like nine years old, who's telling him these things?". Andrew Callaghan spoke to @daveweigel about his new documentary "This Place Rules"
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🟡 SCOOP: In January, The Wall Street Journal made an explosive claim about UNRWA. Months later, the top editor overseeing standards privately made an admission: The paper didn’t know — and still doesn’t know — whether it was true, @maxwelltani reports.
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"We had an open primary and [Kamala Harris] won it. Nobody else got in the race," @SpeakerPelosi tells @kadiagoba.
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"I can't get into his head. And quite frankly, I don't care.". Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to Elon Musk on Mixed Signals from Semafor Media:
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Some staff at MSNBC have been concerned by the moves, feeling the hosts — Mehdi Hasan, Ayman Mohyeldin, and Ali Velshi — have some of the deepest knowledge of the conflict.
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🟡 SCOOP: The Intercept is nearly out of money and facing a bitter civil war, with multiple feuding factions battling for power and two star journalists trying to take control, @maxwelltani reports.
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EU warns Musk about Twitter sanctions after journalist suspensions.
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🟡 SCOOP: Pro-Israel groups, deeply critical of American news outlets such as the Washington Post over their coverage of the war in Gaza, have been working to discredit specific journalists seen as biased against Israel, @maxwelltani reports.
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🟡 NEW: Members of Trump’s team are quietly preparing to go on offense against RFK Jr. as internal campaign polling suggests his expected third party bid could draw more votes from Trump than Biden in a general election, @ShelbyTalcott reports.
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Australian authorities likely shelled out more than $100 million of taxpayer money for "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.".
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Media is a conspiracy — just not the one everyone thinks it is, @semaforben explains. Listen to Mixed Signals from Semafor Media:
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Fox News edited an interview with Trump to remove a section in which he appeared to back off a promise to declassify federal files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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BREAKING: Democrat Gretchen Whitmer has won reelection as governor of Michigan, surviving a challenge from Republican Tudor Dixon
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🟡🟡🟡 SCOOP: The Senate will vote to codify same-sex marriage rights this week, @kadiagoba reports
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What happens to @PodSaveAmerica if Kamala Harris wins and Donald Trump goes away?. @TVietor08 talked to @semaforben and @nayeema on Mixed Signals from Semafor Media:
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"I’m for a dramatic increase in corporate taxes," Steve Bannon tells @daveweigel. "We have to increase taxes on the wealthy.".
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🟡 SCOOP: Michael Flynn and family pocketed leftover money from his legal defense fund, filing claims.
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🇬🇧 @semaforben breaks down the British invasion of American newsrooms. Listen to Mixed Signals from Semafor Media:
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NBC says the shifts are coincidental, and the three continue to appear on air to report and provide analysis.
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The Cook Political Report will put its entire archive online, offering a remarkable and nonpartisan window into modern American political history.
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MSNBC is canceling Mehdi Hasan’s weekend program and show on the streaming service Peacock. Two people familiar with the move tell @maxwelltani that Hasan will become an on-camera analyst and fill-in host.
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🟡 SCOOP: X, Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users’ access to The New York Times, @maxwelltani reports.
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🟡 SCOOP: Fox News viewers tuning in to tonight’s Republican debate will hear from an unexpected voice: Joe Biden. Biden's campaign has purchased airtime on Fox News and plans to run its first 2024 national TV ad before the debate, @maxwelltani reports.
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BREAKING: President Biden is directing the U.S. military to undertake an emergency mission to open a port on the coast of Gaza to ramp up aid deliveries to starving Palestinians amid the Israel-Hamas war.
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Foreign reporters witnessed widespread devastation in Rafah, two months after the Israeli military launched a ground offensive there. The city was described as a “flattened wasteland,” a “maze of rubble,” and “unrecognizable.”.
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🟡 SCOOP: Republican lawmakers investigating the suspension of Biden’s Iran envoy uncovered evidence he downloaded sensitive and classified documents and may have shared them with individuals outside the US government, @SemaforJaySolly reports.
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🟡 SCOOP: Joe Biden met in Las Vegas with Jeffrey Katzenberg who conveyed a warning: The president’s donors’ patience is wearing thin, and their cash soon will, too.
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🟡 SCOOP: Mehdi Hasan is joining The Guardian following his abrupt departure from MSNBC, @maxwelltani reports.
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She was on the plane with him the day of the debate and on the ground with him the morning after. Some Republicans are worried she had something to do with what happened in between.
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Hello world! 🧵 . We’re a new global news brand and platform, launching this fall with the goal of addressing the crisis of trust in news. Sign up today to be part of our launch.
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JUST IN: The Secret Service is investigating how an intruder walked into National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan's home in the middle of the night. Sullivan has around-the-clock security, but agents stationed outside were unaware of the intrusion.
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🟡 SCOOP: NBC News has demanded that Trump’s campaign remove a video that includes audio deceptively edited to seem like it comes from an NBC correspondent after the third presidential debate, @ShelbyTalcott and @maxwelltani report.
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BREAKING: Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail revoked after witness tampering allegations.
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Here's why C-SPAN's coverage of the House speaker drama looks so different than the footage we usually see from Congress
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"The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten. It's not a close call.". Read @daveweigel and @ShelbyTalcott's interview with Mike Pompeo on his potential 2024 run and more:
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JUST IN: Fed Chair Jerome Powell says ‘the time has come’ to cut rates.
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🟡 SCOOP: A Vice documentary on Ron DeSantis’ time as a military lawyer at Guantanamo Bay was quietly shelved by Showtime for fear of political backlash, @maxwelltani reports.
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In a survey commissioned by CNN, respondents of all ideological stripes criticized the network’s "overly dramatic and sensational" and "dire" reporting on the pandemic.
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🟡 SCOOP: In a private email thread, major advertising executives expressed concern that Elon Musk's comments about race and the platform's openness to racist speech have made Twitter toxic, @maxwelltani reports.
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🟡🟡🟡 NEWS: A veteran SpaceX technician was left in a coma for months after a routine pressure valve test went wrong, @ReedAlbergotti reports. SpaceX has made no announcement to the public or to its workers about his status, according to former employees.
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🟡 NEW: Twitter is no longer taking steps to limit the reach of Chinese and Russian state-controlled media outlets, violating the social media platform’s own stated policies, @lmatsakis and @SaacksAttack report .
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The Biden campaign is eagerly planning to make the Affordable Care Act a bigger issue after Trump said that he’s “seriously looking at alternatives” to Obamacare.
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JUST IN: Steve Bannon associate Brian Kolfage sentenced to more than 4 years in ‘We Build the Wall’ scam.
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The pick of J.D. Vance as former President Trump’s running mate is raising fears in corporate America that populist, anti-business Trumponomics will truly take hold in a second term in the White House.
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Since late July, engagement on posts linking to the New York Times has dropped dramatically. The drop is not reflected in links to similar news organizations including CNN, the Washington Post, and the BBC, according to NewsWhip data.
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The Pentagon has launched an investigation into a top-secret security clearance approved for a U.S. defense official who took part in an Iranian government-backed initiative which sought to promote Tehran’s positions on national security.
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🟡 SCOOP: Elon Musk's team is seeking new investors for Twitter as users revolt, advertisers flee, and debt payments loom, @lizrhoffman and @ReedAlbergotti report
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Tim Walz’s personal ties to China have turned him into an overnight sensation on Chinese social media.
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🟡🟡🟡 Exclusive: Biden plans to sign an executive order dramatically limiting U.S. investments in China, @ReedAlbergotti reports. Another order Biden is considering would directly target TikTok by limiting how Chinese Cos. collect data on U.S. citizens.
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🟡 SCOOP: In 2014, senior Iranian Foreign Ministry officials initiated a quiet effort to bolster Tehran’s image and positions on global security issues by building ties with influential overseas academics and researchers, @SemaforJaySolly reports.
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🟡🟡🟡 SCOOP: Magic Johnson is in talks to buy a stake in the Las Vegas Raiders at a price that could set a new record for sports deals, @lizrhoffman and @ReedAlbergotti report.
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Licht’s departure is on its surface a management debacle, @semaforben writes. But it’s also a strategic debacle in which cheap talk about shifting CNN from anti-Trump confrontation toward an imagined center simply didn’t find an audience.
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🚩 Alright, now you can see what we've been up to. Welcome to Semafor!.
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Democrat Seth Magaziner is the winner against Republican Alan Fung in Rhode Island’s Second Congressional District, local station WPRI projects. It’s one of the first highly competitive races to be called tonight #Election2022 .
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Disney CEO Bob Iger and his wife Willow Bay are close to purchasing control of Angel City FC, the Los Angeles women’s soccer franchise that is the most valuable women’s sports franchise in the world.
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NEW: As the debt ceiling deal clears its first major hurdle, its conservative opponents begin to admit defeat.
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🟡 NEW: Chris Stirewalt, one of two senior political editors forced out at Fox News after the network was first to project Biden's 2020 win over Trump in Arizona, talks to @maxwelltani about the Dominion settlement. "Who gets fired?".
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JUST IN: Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “must go now,” and called for the formation of a new government headed by someone else in Netanyahu’s party.
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An influential House US-China subcommittee is calling for the State Department to open a representative office in Somaliland to counter rising Chinese influence in the region.
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“We are not perhaps the most cheerful people in the globe,” @MarinSanna told Semafor. “But of course, we have a good nation and we have a good society.”.
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NEW: Chip Roy is reviving a Ron DeSantis bill to make schools pay for bad student loans, @kadiagoba reports.
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Republicans have a plan B if the U.S. breaches the debt ceiling. It'd still be a disaster. New from @josephzeballos in Principals:
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🟡 NEW: Linda Yaccarino had a simple pitch for NBC’s advertising business: Platforms like YouTube and Twitter are unsafe for brands. As CEO of Twitter, she’ll have to make the exact opposite argument to many of the same marketers.
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🟡 SCOOP: The Los Angeles Times is prohibiting staff from covering the Gaza war for at least three months if they signed a strongly-worded open letter criticizing Israel’s military operations in the region, @maxwelltani reports.
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🟡 SCOOP: A top Washington Post editor instructed editors not to promote a story about a controversy involving the paper’s new CEO Will Lewis, @maxwelltani reports.
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Immigration is now the number one issue that comes up unprompted in Gallup’s annual survey of the U.S.'s top policy concerns when survey takers are asked to list the issue that concerns them most.
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Honduras announced plans for a megaprison that could host up to 20,000 inmates, doubling the country’s current prison capacity.
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Earlier this week, Barack Obama shared multiple Times articles, which reached fewer than 900,000 and 800,000 users respectively. The number was far lower than any other post shared by the former president since X began sharing that data publicly.
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JUST IN: India becomes the first country to land spacecraft on moon’s south pole.
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🟡 SCOOP: Tim Sheehy, the frontrunner for Montana’s GOP Senate nomination, recently told a group of voters that the U.S. needs “to return healthcare to pure privatization,” @kadiagoba reports.
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Bernie Sanders to @daveweigel on the approach he’d like to see Democrats take ahead of the midterms
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🟡 SCOOP from @maxwelltani: Linda Yaccarino has turned X's Hail Mary bet on an imagined $100 million political advertising business over to someone she trusts: her son.
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🟡 SCOOP: New York Times reporters are circulating a draft of an open letter to Joe Kahn, criticizing the paper’s top editor over comments they said were dismissive of young reporters, @maxwelltani reports.
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🟡 SCOOP: President Biden raged against The New York Times in a private White House meeting early last week, after the Times amplified a Hamas claim that an Israeli airstrike was behind the bombing of a Gaza hospital, @maxwelltani and @lizrhoffman report.
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Introducing Semaform. We’re redesigning the atomic unit of written news, the article.
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“CEOs are shocked as this is quite an odd choice to try to balance the ticket with [someone] so hostile to business,” Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, president of Yale University’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute, told Semafor.
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In 2024, it’s harder than ever to get a tough story out in the United States. @maxwelltani looks at how American news lost its nerve:.
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Russian government-linked actors have pivoted their influence campaigns toward denigrating Kamala Harris, according to a new report from Microsoft’s threat analysis center.
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Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in five of seven battleground states, according to new polling shared first with Semafor that shows a tight presidential election.
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🟡🟡🟡 SCOOP in Semafor Principals: Senator Robert Menendez, D-N.J. is under investigation again, @kadiagoba reports.
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🟡 SCOOP: Rep. George Santos tells @kadiagoba he will not run for reelection following a damning report from the House Ethics Committee.
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🟡 SCOOP: A new class-action lawsuit accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of infringing on works by non-fiction authors, the latest in a string of legal actions against artificial intelligence companies, @ReedAlbergotti reports.
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"Fiat currency is an incredible innovation. ". In Semafor Business, @SaacksAttack texts with @jdcmedlock about his $1 million bitcoin Twitter bet.
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One person close to Trump’s campaign said internal polling showed that Kennedy took more votes from Trump than left-wing independent Cornel West drew from Biden when both were tested.
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Another associate, Andrew Badolato, was sentenced to three years in prison. Steve Bannon was also charged over the scam, but Trump pardoned him during his last days in office.
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Rep. Abigail Spanberger says her vet-heavy district is fuming over Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s “outrageous” hold on hundreds of military promotions in protest of a Pentagon abortion policy.
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Chris Christie on Ron DeSantis’ Disney feud: . "That's not the guy I want sitting across from President Xi . or sitting across from Putin and trying to resolve what's happening in Ukraine, if you can't see around a corner Bob Iger created for you.".
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"I feel sorry for Mitch McConnell. He knew what happened on January 6," @SpeakerPelosi tells @kadiagoba. "He was there in the room with us, he was pleading for the National Guard, he said the president was responsible, and then he would not hold him accountable."
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🟡 NEW: IAC, The New York Times, News Corp., and Axel Springer are close to formalizing a coalition that could lead a lawsuit against AI companies that have trained models on their data, @semaforben reports.
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“It’s awful,” one veteran of two major Democratic campaigns said. “It’s bad,” one Democrat close to the administration said. “If it gets Biden not to run, then it was very good,” one former Obama campaign aide darkly texted. “Otherwise it’s bad.”.
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Belarus’s leader-in-exile @Tsihanouskaya has a warning for the West: Yevgeny Prigozhin and his men won’t stay quiet or contained in Belarus.
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Cutting costs or cutting corners? Mexico's electoral future hangs in the balance
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Finland was ranked as the world's happiest country for the seventh straight year in the World Happiness Report, powered by @Gallup. We talked to former Prime Minister @MarinSanna and Helsinki Mayor @filsdeproust to find out why.
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C-SPAN's director of editorial operations told Semafor he hopes all the talk about the network's coverage "translates into American voters going to their lawmakers and saying, 'I want to be able to see you talking on the House floor, doing your job.'"
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Republican legislators are demanding an investigation into an Iranian-backed influence scheme that built ties with associates of the Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran special envoy, including a current Pentagon employee.
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