ChainCatcher news, the founder and CEO of Meta admitted that the Biden administration pressured his team to review content on the platform. Zuckerberg stated:"In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, pressured our team multiple times to review certain content related to COVID-19, including humorous and satirical content, and when we disagreed, they expressed great frustration with our team. Ultimately, the decision to remove content was ours, and we are responsible for our decisions, including the modifications made under this pressure regarding COVID-19 related content.""I believe the government's pressure was wrong, and I regret not being more outspoken at the time. I also think we made some choices that, in hindsight and based on new information, we should not have made. As I told our team at the time, I firmly believe we should not compromise our content standards due to any government pressure.""In another instance, the FBI warned us that there might be a Russian disinformation campaign regarding the Biden family and Burisma before the 2020 election. That fall, when we saw the New York Post's report on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's family, we sent the report to fact-checkers for review and temporarily reduced its distribution weight while waiting for a response.It later became clear that this report was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we should not have reduced its distribution weight. We have changed our policies and processes to ensure this does not happen again."

ChainCatcher news, Abra's head of over-the-counter options trading Bohan Jiang stated that the recent macroeconomic downturn has caught the derivatives market off guard, with the Chicago Board Options Exchange's Volatility Index (VIX) soaring. In the past 24 hours, the VIX has surged above 65 points, marking the highest level since the market panic at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.Bohan Jiang said, "I expect that the implied volatility in the cryptocurrency market will remain high until macro factors stabilize. Most options market participants were not prepared for the recent macroeconomic recession. As the macro narrative shifts, the cryptocurrency market still tends to trend upward; there is almost no hedging against downside risks."

ChainCatcher news, according to CCTV News, the White House stated that U.S. President Biden tested positive for COVID-19. According to the White House statement, Biden's COVID-19 test result was positive after his first event in Las Vegas that day. The statement said that Biden has received a booster vaccine and is currently experiencing mild symptoms. Biden will return to his home in Delaware to isolate and continue working from home.According to Jrj, Biden stated in an interview that if doctors directly tell him that there are issues with his health, he will reassess whether to continue his presidential campaign.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and Polygon founder Sandeep Nailwal's Crypto Relief have decided to invest another $100 million in COVID-19 research projects. Of this, Crypto Relief has already allocated $90 million from the initial SHIB donation, and Vitalik Buterin will contribute an additional $10 million of his own funds.Vitalik Buterin stated that COVID-19 and future pandemics are global issues that require a global solution. Last year, Crypto Relief allocated $100 million for COVID-19 research projects. (source link)