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On Nov. 14, the New York Times (NYT) published a massive 2,200-word expose and interview with the former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), and the article was criticized a great deal after it was published. The article noted that SBF would only offer \u201climited details about the central questions swirling around him,\u201d and most of the article cited a number of former employees and sources familiar with the matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Times Article Interviewing Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Slammed for \u2018Disgraceful Reporting\u2019<\/h2>\n

The news publication the New York Times (NYT) is dealing with a lot of criticism tied to an interview with the former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), after the NYT published the editorial<\/a> on Nov. 14, 2022. The editorial and interview is 2,200 words long, and it contains direct comments from the former FTX executive. However, the bean-bag-loving SBF doesn\u2019t get into much detail about what happened, and the new information people learned from the NYT report was that SBF was getting more sleep these days.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou would\u2019ve thought that I\u2019d be getting no sleep right now, and instead I\u2019m getting some,\u201d SBF told the NYT reporters. \u201cIt could be worse,\u201d the former FTX CEO added in a \u201cwide-ranging interview on Sunday that stretched past midnight.\u201d Although, after the interview with SBF was published, the NYT article was dunked upon by a myriad of critics for not grilling SBF for answers to meaningful questions about the collapse.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDisgraceful reporting by the [New York Times] on FTX,\u201d the economist and trader Alex Kr\u00fcger wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt portrays SBF as a charitable entrepreneur who went under and does not mention the words fraud, criminal, substance abuse, friends & family Bahamas KYC racket, hack, stolen funds or wiped servers anywhere,\u201d Kr\u00fcger added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe NYT drops a softball piece on SBF painting him as an aspirational dude who genuinely got in over his head,\u201d Chris Josephs tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWhile writing hit pieces on the CEOs of Coinbase [and] Kraken, two who actually protected their clients\u2019 assets. Turns out FTX donated $70M to politicians in 2022.\u201d Another person explained<\/a> that out of the entire 2,200-word article, there [were] zero mentions of the words fraud, Enron, crime, illiquid, stolen, hidden, criminal, and back door.<\/p>\n

The financial publication Zerohedge also chimed in and said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Massive 2,200-word article on SBF in the NYT. Mentions of donations to democrats = 0.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan further criticized the NYT\u2019s article. \u201cThe New York Times is covering up Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s crimes,\u201d Srinivasan tweeted<\/a>. \u201cNothing SBF says can be trusted. Nothing NYT says can be trusted either. But dunking does nothing. Lies make their traffic rise. You do have one option, though. Mass block them all in one go,\u201d Srinivasan added.<\/p>\n

The chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation, Alex Gladstein, also shared his two cents about the NYT article. \u201cThe fact that the [New York Times] protects and refuses to call SBF out as a scammer *even today* while they continue to attack Bitcoin as bad, criminal, destructive, etc tells you all you need to know about their agenda,\u201d Gladstein tweeted<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

Another new piece of information shared in the NYT article was the fact that SBF is still playing video games. While commenting about playing the video game \u201cStorybook Brawl,\u201d SBF told NYT that the game helps him \u201cunwind a bit\u201d and that it clears his mind.<\/p>\n

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What do you think about the recent New York Times interview with SBF? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nJamie Redman <\/h6>\n

\nJamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.

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