In my experience, a lot of journalists are still pretty unwilling to believe that companies (and politicians, and...) will just lie. That’s a particularly bad perspective to hold when you’re covering the crypto sector.

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Binance hasn’t REcovered $6B+, it’s COVERING it (reimbursing customers from company funds). Bad headlines like this are a big part of why I started covering crypto. Generalist reporters on deadline far too often end up repeating company spin.

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Also, I'd love to know why the court allowed this hearing to be public, allowing Ezra Levant to propagandise it. It's my understanding that trials arising from offences relating to online harassment and abuse are held in camera as standard in Ireland.

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It's a little over a year since Musk amplified Conor McGregor's disinformation about the Irish presidency & offered to fund McGregor's campaign personally. As @lizcarolan.com points out, Musk described Tainaiste Simon Harris as "traitorous" mere days after bomb threats were sent to his family home.

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I really cannot emphasis how disturbing a precedent Elon Musk's direct interference into an Irish criminal trial of a man accused of online abuse and harassment has set.

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