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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-23T12:03:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\nFrom 2017 to 2024, 52-year-old Michael Smith, from Cornelius, North Carolina, and his co-conspirators ran a large-scale fraud scheme that artificially boosted the stream counts of AI-generated songs across Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube, according to court documents.\n\nRead Entire Article\n\n",
  "title": "Man who used 1,000 bots to stream AI songs pleads guilty in $8 million fraud case"
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