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229Drop in the number of billionaires in China in 2022China lost 229 billionaires in 2022 as the zero-Covid policy, regulatory crackdowns, and property price declines hit the country’s super-rich, according to research platform Hurun Report. Jack Ma, once China’s richest man, saw his net worth drop 32% last year, and ranked eighth among the country’s wealthiest. Tencent founder Pony Ma and ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming ranked second and third, respectively.
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766The number of moderators Facebook employed to manually moderate content posted in Arabic in 2020According to an internal company document, those moderators were to cover content posted by Facebook’s 220 million users in the Arabic-speaking world. The company has argued that this figure isn’t representative of all people working to remove content, since certain types of prohibited content can be removed without speaking a user’s language.
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$15.7 billionThe venture capital investment in Latin American companies in 2021Last year, the amount of venture capital investment in the region more than tripled, according to a report from Global Private Capital Association. Fintech companies were at the fore, taking 39% of all investments, which was followed closely by e-commerce companies at 25%. All in all, the $15.7 billion total adds up to more than Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East combined.
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$600 millionThe amount of cryptocurrency assets that were plundered by a hacker from decentralized finance platform PolyNetworkThe stolen assets, including ether and tokens backed by Shiba Inu coin, were returned to addresses controlled by PolyNetwork. Founded by a China-based entrepreneur, PolyNetwork allows users to operate between multiple blockchains. Posts claiming to be from those behind the hack said they intended to expose vulnerabilities and had always planned to return the money.
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$150 billionThe amount, in damages, for which lawyers representing Rohingya refugees are suing Facebook owner MetaThe class-action lawsuit claims that Meta bears responsibility for violent and racist messaging on its platform that U.N. investigators have said contributed to a potential genocide in Myanmar. Lawyers in the case accuse Facebook of failing to take adequate steps to prevent its platform from hosting hate speech that presaged attacks that killed thousands.