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Zach Witkoff’s X account hacked, used to falsely promote $BARRON coin

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53% Informative

A hacker took control of the X account of Zach Witkoff , co-founder of World Liberty Financial , and used it to promote a fake Barron Trump -themed memecoin.

The fraudulent project, called $ BARRON , quickly surged in market value before crashing within seconds .

The coin briefly reached a market capitalization of $73 million in under ten minutes before suddenly plummeting by 99% .

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31

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22

Neutral language

33

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

52

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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