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here's your daily crunch. Spotify has reportedly shut down its Moscow operations indefinitely

in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The streaming platform had just opened a representative office in Moscow last month

after a new Russian law required foreign tech companies

with an audience of over 500,000 users to establish an office in the nation

by 2022.

But the law is new enough that most of the companies impacted, a list that includes Meta,

Twitter, and telegram have yet to comply.

So far, Spotify, Tik-Toc, and Apple have opened offices in Russia.

Spotify will also be yanking RT and Sputnik news off its Platform, both Kremlin-funded news outlets with a massive

global audience. Critics say both outlets function as propaganda tools for the Russian government

and their foreign policy interests.

In other news, Brivian surprised many of its pre-order customers on March 1st with the announcement

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