NY State Senate Bill 2025-S9417

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Mar 10, 2026	referred to internet and technology

2025-S9417 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A10561
Current Committee:: Senate Internet And Technology
Law Section:: General Business Law
Laws Affected:: Add Art 48 §§1705 - 1714, Gen Bus L

2025-S9417 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "stopping abuse and fraud enabled by (SAFE) platforms act"; requires a mechanism for users to report fraudulent content; prohibits platforms recommending, promoting, curating, prioritizing, or displaying fraudulent content for delivery to a user if it knows or has reason to know that the content is fraudulent.

2025-S9417 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S9417

SPONSOR: GOUNARDES
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the general business law, in relation to enacting the
"SAFE platforms act"

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This bill would require social media platforms to take reasonable meas-
ures to detect and prevent consumer fraud on their platforms.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one of this bill names it the Stopping Abuse and Fraud Enabled
by (SAFE) Platforms Act.

Section two of this bill creates a new article 48 in the General Busi-
ness Law (GBL) which requires social media platforms to:

- Provide an easily accessible manner for consumers to report suspected

fraudulent content

- Not recommend, promote, curate, prioritize, or display content to a
user that it knows is fraudulent

- Not materially contribute to the development of fraudulent content

- Enforce the platform's published terms, policies, or community stand-
ards concerning fraud

- Reasonably attempt to detect and prevent the creation of multiple
accounts by a bad actor for fraud purposes

- Implement Know Your Customer (KYC) verifications for advertisers and
verify methods of payment

- Allow all users to view an advertiser's legal name, the country or
jurisdiction where the advertiser is based, and how long the advertiser
has maintained an account on the platform This bill would be remedied
via a state right of action from the Attorney General, who could pursue
a civil penalty of up to $5,000 per day per violation as well as resti-
tution for fraud victims.

Section three is a severability clause. Section four provides the effec-
tive date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Online fraud has become one of the defining consumer crises of the
digital age, and it is no accident. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint
Center found that older Americans reported $4.8 billion in losses from
internet scams in 2024, a 43 percent increase from the prior year. These
white collar criminals exploit social media's own features, including
recommendation algorithms, ad targeting tools, fake profiles, and direct
messaging, to reach their victims at scale.  A May 2025 Wall Street
Journal investigation revealed that Meta platforms have become what
regulators, banks, and internal company documents describe as "a corner-
stone of the internet fraud economy."  According to that reporting, Meta
accounted for nearly half of all reported scams on Zelle for JPMorgan
Chase between the summers of 2023 and 2024, a finding echoed by British
and Australian regulators who identified similar levels of fraud origi-
nating on Meta's platforms. A landmark Reuters investigation published
in December 2025 further revealed that Meta's own internal calculations
found that more than $3 billion of their annual advertising revenue
originating in China came from scams, illegal gambling, and other
prohibited content. When Meta's own safety team developed tools to
address the problem, leadership disbanded the unit and restored
suspended fraudulent advertisers to protect revenue. The platforms are
not unaware of the fraud on their platforms.

The Wall Street Journal's investigation documents in specific terms what
Meta is failing to do. Meta is not verifying advertiser identities: the
company abandoned plans for advertiser verification requirements, simi-
lar to what it already mandates for political ads, because it worried
about losing revenue from marketers unwilling or unable to pass identity
checks. Meta is not promptly removing known fraudsters: internal docu-
ments show the company allows advertisers to accumulate between eight
and 32 automated strikes for financial fraud before banning their
accounts, and even where employees personally escalate the problem, the
threshold drops only to between four and 16 strikes. Meta is not prior-
itizing anti-fraud enforcement: documents reviewed by the Journal show
the company has deprioritized scam enforcement in recent years, empha-
sizing the avoidance of erroneous ad takedowns over user safety, and a
2022 reprioritization of content moderation resources resulted in a 46
percent drop in likely scams reviewed within Facebook Groups. Meta is
not investing in automated detection: a 2022 internal document described
"a lack of investment" in building automated tools to identify scams,
and the company's own internal analysis that year found that 70 percent
of newly active advertisers on the platform were promoting scams, illic-
it goods, or "low quality" products. Meta is not enforcing its own poli-
cies: despite Meta's rules banning peer-to-peer sales of live animals
outside narrow contexts, a recent search for "puppies" yielded thousands
of noncompliant ads with common scam hallmarks, many operated from over-
seas. And Meta is not promptly responding when notified: one Atlanta
small business owner reported that over 4,400 fraudulent ads impersonat-
ing his company ran on Meta's platforms over a single year, while his
actual business ran 15. Allegedly, repeated reports to Meta produced no
response.

While section 230 of the Communications Decency Act generally shields
online platforms from liability for the third party content generated by
their users, this decades-old section of law, which was enacted in 1996,
does not immunize platforms that cross from passively hosting to active-
ly participating in fraud. Recent court decisions confirm this: the
Ninth Circuit in Fair Housing Council v. Roommates.com held that Section
230 does not protect platforms that materially contribute to unlawful
content, and the Third Circuit's 2024 decision in Anderson v. TikTok
established that a platform's own algorithmic recommendations are first-
party speech unprotected by Section 230.  The Wall Street Journal's
reporting underscores the relevance of this legal evolution: Meta has
simultaneously argued in U.S. federal court that it bears no legal
responsibility to address fraud on its platforms, while its own internal
documents describe ad targeting and recommendation systems that actively
amplify fraudulent content to susceptible users. Meta's legal position,
that it "does not owe a duty to users" to address fraud, is precisely
the posture that this legislation is designed to foreclose.  The SAFE
Platforms Act codifies these principles, preventing platforms from
recommending or promoting fraudulent content, sharing consumer data with
advertisers they have reason to believe will defraud users, or systemat-
ically failing to enforce their own published anti-fraud policies.

The SAFE Platforms Act requires platforms to verify the identity of
every advertiser before any advertisement is served by collecting legal
name, address, tax identification, and business registration, and main-
taining records for law enforcement access. The Reuters investigation
found that Meta's China advertising ecosystem was deliberately struc-
tured through layers of reseller agencies to obscure advertiser identi-
ties and insulate bad actors from accountability. The WSJ investigation
similarly found that scam ad accounts for a single Atlanta warehouse
were traced to operators in China, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and the Philip-
pines, yet Meta's systems continued running their ads. Taiwan imple-
mented similar verification requirements and saw fraudulent investment
ads fall by 96 percent within a year. The bill also requires platforms
to provide a clear and accessible mechanism for user consumers to report
suspected fraud, requires platforms to take reasonable measures to
detect and block the creation of multiple accounts by bad actors, allows
users to view basic information about advertisements including the legal
name of the advertiser, country of jurisdiction, and how long they have
maintained an account, and prohibits dark patterns that subvert the
purpose of the bill.

Social media platforms' own internal records demonstrate that effective
anti-fraud tools exist and work, but they are not deployed unless plat-
forms face pressure to do so. The Wall Street Journal found that Meta
treats scams as a "low severity" user experience issue rather than a
significant threat to vulnerable people or a vector for organized inter-
national crime, even as the company's own documents describe an internal
emergency over scam spikes. In the wake of investigative reporting, the
European Commission opened a formal inquiry into Meta and the attorney
general of the U.S. Virgin Islands filed suit against the company for
knowingly profiting from scams. New York should not wait.  The SAFE
Platforms Act imposes meaningful accountability on platforms that enable
fraud, while providing safe harbor for those acting in good faith.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

None

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

TBD

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect one hundred and eighty days after it shall
have become a law.

2025-S9417 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9417
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 10, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the general business law, in relation to enacting the
   "SAFE platforms act"
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "stopping
 abuse and fraud enabled by (SAFE) platforms act".
   § 2. The general business law is amended by adding a new article 48 to
 read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 48
                            SAFE PLATFORMS ACT
 SECTION 1705. DEFINITIONS.
         1706. PROHIBITIONS.
         1707. MECHANISMS TO PREVENT FRAUD.
         1708. KNOW YOUR CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS.
         1709. CONSUMER TRANSPARENCY.
         1710. NONDISCRIMINATION.
         1711. PROHIBITION ON DARK PATTERNS.
         1712. EXCEPTIONS.
         1713. REMEDIES.
         1714. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY.
   § 1705. DEFINITIONS. AS USED IN  THIS  ARTICLE,  THE  FOLLOWING  TERMS
 SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1.  "ADVERTISER"  MEANS ANY PERSON OR ENTITY THAT PAYS A COVERED PLAT-
 FORM TO DISPLAY, PROMOTE, OR OTHERWISE DISSEMINATE CONTENT TO  USERS  OF
 SUCH PLATFORM.
   2.  "CONSUMER"  OR "CONSUMER USER" MEANS A USER IN NEW YORK STATE ON A
 COVERED PLATFORM THAT IS ACTING NEITHER AS  AN  OPERATOR  OF  A  COVERED
 PLATFORM NOR AS AN ADVERTISER ON SUCH PLATFORM.
   3.  "COVERED  PLATFORM"  MEANS  A  SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM AS DEFINED IN
 SUBDIVISION FIVE OF SECTION ELEVEN  HUNDRED  OF  THIS  CHAPTER  THAT  IS
 ACCESSED BY OR OFFERED TO A USER AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION EIGHT OF THIS
 SECTION.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD15173-02-6
 S. 9417                             2
 
   4. "FRAUD" MEANS ANY REPRESENTATION, OMISSION, OR PRACTICE THAT:
   (A)  IS  LIKELY  TO  MISLEAD  A  CONSUMER  ACTING REASONABLY UNDER THE
 CIRCUMSTANCES; AND
   (B) IS MATERIAL TO CONSUMER DECISION-MAKING.
   5. "FRAUDULENT  CONTENT"  MEANS  CONTENT  THAT  CONSTITUTES  FRAUD  AS
 DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION.
   6. "MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE" MEANS ENCOURAGING OR INDUCING AN ADVERTISER
 OR USER TO DEVELOP OR DISSEMINATE FRAUDULENT CONTENT BY MEANS OF CONDUCT
 THAT GOES BEYOND THE PROVISION OF NEUTRAL TOOLS BY A COVERED PLATFORM TO
 DEVELOP OR DISSEMINATE SUCH CONTENT.
   7.  "OPERATOR"  MEANS  A  PERSON,  BUSINESS, OR OTHER LEGAL ENTITY WHO
 OPERATES OR PROVIDES A COVERED PLATFORM.
   8. "PURCHASE ADVERTISEMENTS" MEANS  THAT  AN  ADVERTISER  HAS  PAID  A
 COVERED  PLATFORM  TO DISPLAY, PROMOTE, OR OTHERWISE DISSEMINATE CONTENT
 TO USERS OF SUCH PLATFORM.
   9. "USER" MEANS A USER OF A COVERED PLATFORM IN NEW YORK STATE THAT IS
 NOT ACTING AS AN OPERATOR OR AGENT OR AFFILIATE OF SUCH OPERATOR  FOR  A
 COVERED PLATFORM OR ANY PORTION THEREOF.
   § 1706. PROHIBITIONS. 1. NO COVERED PLATFORM SHALL MATERIALLY CONTRIB-
 UTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FRAUDULENT CONTENT.
   2.  NO  COVERED PLATFORM SHALL RECOMMEND, PROMOTE, CURATE, PRIORITIZE,
 OR DISPLAY FRAUDULENT CONTENT FOR DELIVERY TO A USER IF IT KNOWS OR  HAS
 REASON TO KNOW THAT THE CONTENT IS FRAUDULENT.
   3. NO COVERED PLATFORM SHALL FAIL TO ENFORCE SUCH PLATFORM'S PUBLISHED
 TERMS,  POLICIES,  OR  COMMUNITY STANDARDS CONCERNING FRAUDULENT CONTENT
 WHERE:
   (A) USERS REASONABLY RELIED ON SPECIFIC REPRESENTATIONS IN SUCH  TERMS
 REGARDING FRAUD PREVENTION, DETECTION, OR REMOVAL; OR
   (B) SUCH FAILURE DEMONSTRATES SYSTEMATIC DISREGARD FOR SUCH PLATFORM'S
 COMMITMENTS TO PREVENT FRAUD.
   §  1707.  MECHANISMS  TO  PREVENT FRAUD. 1. (A) COVERED PLATFORMS MUST
 PROVIDE AN EASILY ACCESSIBLE MECHANISM  FOR  CONSUMER  USERS  TO  REPORT
 FRAUDULENT  CONTENT  THAT  CONSUMER USERS BELIEVE TO BE FRAUDULENT. SUCH
 MECHANISM SHALL ALLOW CONSUMER USERS TO PROVIDE THEIR IDENTITY,  CONTACT
 INFORMATION,  AND  A  SPECIFIC  FACTUAL  BASIS  FOR SUCH CONSUMER USER'S
 BELIEF THAT THE CONTENT IS FRAUDULENT.
   (B) COVERED PLATFORMS MUST ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF SUCH REPORTS  WITHIN
 THREE DAYS.
   2. COVERED PLATFORMS SHALL IMPLEMENT REASONABLE MEASURES TO DETECT AND
 PREVENT THE CREATION OF MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS BY THE SAME INDIVIDUAL FOR THE
 PURPOSE OF DISSEMINATING FRAUDULENT CONTENT, INCLUDING:
   (A)  ACCOUNTS  CREATED  SHORTLY AFTER SUSPENSION OR REMOVAL OF ANOTHER
 ACCOUNT THAT SUCH PLATFORM HAD IDENTIFIED  AS  DISSEMINATING  FRAUDULENT
 CONTENT,  WHERE  SUCH  PLATFORM  HAS  REASON  TO BELIEVE THAT SUCH NEWLY
 CREATED ACCOUNT MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH  OR  LINKED  TO  SUCH  PREVIOUSLY
 SUSPENDED OR REMOVED ACCOUNT;
   (B) ACCOUNTS THAT EXHIBIT SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR PATTERNS OF FRAUDULENT
 BEHAVIOR  TO  ACCOUNTS PREVIOUSLY SUSPENDED FOR DISSEMINATING FRAUDULENT
 CONTENT; AND
   (C) COORDINATED NETWORKS OF ACCOUNTS PROMOTING FRAUDULENT CONTENT.
   3. COVERED PLATFORMS SHALL ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN SYSTEMS  AND  PROCE-
 DURES  TO  TRACK  ADVERTISERS  FOUND  TO  HAVE  DISSEMINATED  FRAUDULENT
 CONTENT.   COVERED PLATFORMS SHALL  APPLY  ENHANCED  SCRUTINY  TO  NEWLY
 CREATED  ACCOUNTS  THAT  SHARE  CHARACTERISTICS WITH ACCOUNTS PREVIOUSLY
 SUSPENDED OR REMOVED BY SUCH PLATFORM  DUE  TO  SUCH  ACCOUNT'S  DISSEM-
 INATION  OF  FRAUDULENT  CONTENT  AND  SHALL TAKE REASONABLE MEASURES TO
 S. 9417                             3
 
 PREVENT USERS KNOWN BY THE PLATFORM  TO  HAVE  CREATED  SUCH  PREVIOUSLY
 SUSPENDED  OR  REMOVED ACCOUNTS FROM PURCHASING FUTURE ADVERTISEMENTS ON
 SUCH PLATFORMS.
   §  1708.  KNOW  YOUR CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS. 1. COVERED PLATFORMS SHALL
 USE COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE AND TECHNICALLY FEASIBLE METHODS  TO  VERIFY
 THE IDENTITY OF ADVERTISERS BEFORE ALLOWING SUCH ADVERTISERS TO PURCHASE
 ADVERTISEMENTS ON SUCH PLATFORM. SUCH VERIFICATION METHODS SHALL GATHER,
 AT A MINIMUM:
   (A) THE ADVERTISER'S LEGAL NAME AND PHYSICAL ADDRESS;
   (B) THE ADVERTISER'S EMAIL ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER;
   (C) THE ADVERTISER'S TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER OR OTHER GOVERNMENT-IS-
 SUED IDENTIFIER;
   (D)  TO  THE  EXTENT  APPLICABLE  BECAUSE THE ADVERTISER IS A BUSINESS
 ENTITY, DOCUMENTATION ESTABLISHING THE LEGAL EXISTENCE OF  SUCH  ENTITY,
 SUCH  AS ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION, REGISTRATION CERTIFICATES, OR EQUIV-
 ALENT DOCUMENTATION ISSUED BY A GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY; AND
   (E) A DECLARATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PRODUCT, SERVICE,  OR  OPPORTU-
 NITY  BEING  ADVERTISED  AND  TYPE OF INDUSTRY SUCH PRODUCT, SERVICE, OR
 OPPORTUNITY MAY BE CATEGORIZED UNDER.
   2. COVERED PLATFORMS SHALL VERIFY METHODS OF PAYMENT OF AN ADVERTISER.
   3. COVERED PLATFORMS SHALL MAINTAIN RECORDS OF THE VERIFICATION INFOR-
 MATION DESCRIBED HEREIN FOR A PERIOD OF AT LEAST THREE  YEARS  FROM  THE
 DATE OF THE ADVERTISER'S LAST PURCHASE OF AN ADVERTISEMENT ON SUCH PLAT-
 FORM.
   4.  COVERED  PLATFORMS  SHALL PROMPTLY PROVIDE ANY RELEVANT ADVERTISER
 INFORMATION UPON RECEIPT OF A VALID SUBPOENA OR COURT ORDER FROM  A  LAW
 ENFORCEMENT  AGENCY  IN  CONNECTION  TO  AN  INVESTIGATION OF FRAUDULENT
 ACTIVITY.
   § 1709. CONSUMER TRANSPARENCY.  1.  COVERED  PLATFORMS  SHALL  PROVIDE
 CONSUMER  USERS  WITH  INFORMATION  ABOUT  ADVERTISERS ON SUCH PLATFORM,
 INCLUDING THE LEGAL NAME OF THE ADVERTISER, THE COUNTRY OR  JURISDICTION
 WHERE  SUCH  ADVERTISER  IS BASED, AND HOW LONG THE ADVERTISER HAS MAIN-
 TAINED AN ACCOUNT ON THE PLATFORM.
   2. THE INFORMATION DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION  SHALL
 BE VIEWABLE THROUGH DIRECT DISPLAY ON THE ADVERTISEMENT, A CLEARLY VISI-
 BLE LINK, BUTTON, ICON, OR OTHER FORM OF MANIFEST DISCLOSURE, OR THROUGH
 OTHER REASONABLY ACCESSIBLE MEANS.
   §  1710.  NONDISCRIMINATION.  AN OPERATOR SHALL NOT WITHHOLD, DEGRADE,
 LOWER THE QUALITY, OR INCREASE THE PRICE OF  ANY  PRODUCT,  SERVICE,  OR
 FEATURE TO A USER DUE TO SUCH OPERATOR'S OBLIGATIONS UNDER THIS ARTICLE.
   §  1711.  PROHIBITION ON DARK PATTERNS. 1. THE REPORTING PROVISIONS IN
 SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SEVENTEEN HUNDRED SEVEN OF THIS  ARTICLE  AND
 THE  CONSUMER  TRANSPARENCY PROVISIONS IN SECTION SEVENTEEN HUNDRED NINE
 OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE PRESENTED IN A CLEAR AND ACCESSIBLE MANNER TO A
 USER ON A COVERED PLATFORM.
   2. IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR SUCH PLATFORM TO DEPLOY ANY  MECHANISM  OR
 DESIGN WHICH INTENTIONALLY INHIBITS THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE OR MAKES
 IT  MORE  DIFFICULT FOR A CONSUMER TO EXERCISE ANY OF THEIR RIGHTS UNDER
 THIS ARTICLE.
   § 1712. EXCEPTIONS. 1. NOTHING IN THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE INTERPRETED OR
 CONSTRUED TO IMPOSE LIABILITY IN A MANNER THAT IS INCONSISTENT  WITH  47
 USC §230.
   2. THIS ARTICLE SHALL NOT APPLY TO CONTENT THAT IS TRANSMITTED THROUGH
 BUT NOT STORED ON A COVERED PLATFORM.
   §  1713.  REMEDIES. 1. A VIOLATION OF THIS ARTICLE SHALL CONSTITUTE AN
 UNFAIR, DECEPTIVE, OR  ABUSIVE  ACT  OR  PRACTICE  UNDER  SECTION  THREE
 S. 9417                             4
 
 HUNDRED FORTY-NINE OF THIS CHAPTER FOR THE PURPOSES OF A RIGHT OF ACTION
 GRANTED  TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. SUCH VIOLATION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO ALL
 THE INVESTIGATORY AND ENFORCEMENT POWERS  CONFERRED  UPON  THE  ATTORNEY
 GENERAL UNDER SUCH SECTION.
   2.  NOTWITHSTANDING SECTION THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-D OF THIS CHAPTER, THE
 ATTORNEY GENERAL MAY SEEK A CIVIL PENALTY OF UP TO FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
 PER VIOLATION PER DAY THAT SUCH VIOLATION CONTINUES. THE ATTORNEY GENER-
 AL MAY FURTHER SEEK RESTITUTION FOR USERS WHO SUFFERED MONETARY HARM DUE
 TO A VIOLATION OF THIS ARTICLE AS WELL AS  THE  RECOVERY  OF  REASONABLE
 ATTORNEYS' FEES AND COSTS.
   § 1714. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL MAY PROMULGATE SUCH
 RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  AS  ARE NECESSARY TO EFFECTUATE AND ENFORCE THE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 3. Severability. If any clause,  sentence,  paragraph,  subdivision,
 section  or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent
 jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,  impair,  or
 invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
 to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or part thereof
 directly  involved  in the controversy in which such judgment shall have
 been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the legislature
 that this act would have been enacted even if  such  invalid  provisions
 had not been included herein.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
 completed on or before such effective date.

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