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No, a crypto CEO wasn’t arrested for smuggling 20,000 condoms

The team behind the crypto-based mobile game DoginHood fabricated a Wall Street Journal article claiming that the project's founder was arrested for attempting to smuggle 20,000 condoms into Singapore. The fake article was shared on DoginHood's social media account, but the Wall Street Journal has not published any such article. The fake story seems to be leveraging the upcoming Singapore crypto conference for publicity. This strategy of using fake news as PR has been employed by other crypto projects, such as NEAR protocol, but it has received criticism from some users.

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