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The Mediaverse by Dennis Kneale, TruthDAO opinion columnist \”Inside the Twitter Files\” is a special three-part Mediaverse series on how some in the news media have covered the release of internal conversations among Twitter employees and government officials related to the social network’s policies and decisions. The Twitter Files exposè is one of the biggest […]

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO This week is turning out to be a memorable one for FTX, formerly the world\’s No. 3 crypto exchange. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed civil charges against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried — known universally as SBF — claiming he misled investors who collectively deposited nearly $2 billion with

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO Binance, currently the world’s largest cryptocurrency platform, is feeling the heat as the entire crypto industry comes under fire for opaque business practices. On Tuesday, NY prosecutors unsealed their 8-count indictment against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, commonly known as \”SBF.\” The Securities and Exchange Commission also filed civil charges, claiming SBF

The Mediaverse by Dennis Kneale, TruthDAO columnist If you are one of the 290 million Americans who aren’t on Twitter, have you even heard of the Twitter Files exposé? Maybe not, because The Washington Post, The New York Times, and CNN and other mainstream media have ignored this story or undermined it for days. As

La Frontera, by Carlos Sanchez, TruthDAO opinion columnist I recently boarded a plane in South Texas’s McAllen Miller International Airport and was astonished by what I saw: In a county that the U.S. Census Bureau says is just one percent Black or African American, the passenger load was easily one-third Black. As I took my

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO Before FTX went belly up, tech entrepreneur and value investor Mike Alfred predicted that Celsius Network and BlockFi would collapse. He made that prescient prediction last year. Both companies have since filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Alfred thinks it\’s just a matter of time before others go bust. Some of

The Mediaverse by Dennis Kneale, TruthDAO columnist The overnight collapse of the FTX crypto trading platform wiped out $8 billion in investor funds and sparked $200 billion in crypto losses. Yet, up until a few weeks ago, FTX was adored by the media and admired by some of the most powerful investment firms in the

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO So. Many. Warning. Signs. And to all appearances, every one of them was missed. FTX had a valuation of $32 billion, making it the third largest crypto exchange in the world. It had the backing of top-tier investment funds, including Sequoia Capital, BlackRock and SoftBank. As for its 30-year-old founder and

By Kathy Chu, TruthDAO The contagion from FTX\’s collapse underscores the appeal of keeping funds in your own custody, says crypto executive Stephen Young. After years of designing software for banks, Young helped found Coindirect, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange, in 2017. He left three years later to start NFTfi, a decentralized lending platform. Young\’s pivot

The Mediaverse by Dennis Kneale, TruthDAO columnist Former President Trump, who often says the liberal media are the “enemy of the people,” has a new nemesis: the conservative media. They are turning on him with a startling vehemence in the wake of the Republican bellyflop in the midterms. Even more startling, this turning on Trump