this article is misleading, not very good journalism to be honest. I’m not a crypto bull or bear, but looking at how the “facts” are presented in this article you can clearly see the bias.
Lex Fridman’s podcast had an ex-CIA agent on it recently and he mentioned how bcs of issues like this in Europe the war in Ukraine has to end by the fall. His words were “NATO needs Russian sanctions lifted”. He implied the war will be over by the fall (in his assessment).
you have to watch the video of the actual court proceedings. a core issue is that LinkedIn knew hIQ was scraping their website and allowed them to do this until they started launching similar features. hIQ has a strong argument around this point and evidence proving so.