Elon Musk, Semafor allegations dig ‘conflict of interest’ rabbit hole

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On Nov. 18th, Semafor, the planetary quality company, released an announcement stating “no crushed successful particular, but you tin besides travel america on,” and past listed a fig of their societal media platforms.

No crushed successful particular, but you tin besides travel america on:

YouTube https://t.co/vzf0vYlh9M
TikTok https://t.co/Y5jAFLFYex
Instagram https://t.co/WwnF6wQ5A8
Flipboard https://t.co/zHDvxnjI3H
Facebook https://t.co/bEoctknpeG

And motion up for our newsletters:https://t.co/MyjrC3js7A

— Semafor (@semafor) November 18, 2022

On Nov. 23rd, Elon Musk responded to that tweet, claiming that Semafor is owned by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), and alleged a “massive” struggle of involvement successful Semafor’s reporting.

Semafor is owned by SBF. This is simply a monolithic struggle of involvement successful your reporting. Journalistic integrity is . pic.twitter.com/1AB6KReJUj

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 23, 2022

In effect to Musk’s allegation, Semafor Editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, acknowledged the concern from SBF but claimed that this accusation is disclosed each clip Semafor covers SBF content. Within the aforesaid response, Smith besides claimed that Musk and “many others” had taken an concern from SBF.

Like you and galore others, we took an concern from him. We person covered him aggressively, and disclose it each clip we constitute astir him, including present https://t.co/7yS5166PtP.

— Ben Smith (@semaforben) November 23, 2022

Technical analyst, Duo Nine, besides joined the statement to lend his opinion.

As the nationalist statement steadily gained engagement, entrepreneur and futurist author, Steve Faktor highlighted a video created by the renowned net detective, Coffeezilla, which questioned Bloomberg’s integrity.

Another immense struggle of involvement coming to airy astatine Bloomberg.https://t.co/c6MzbVf9m5

— Steve Faktor (@ideafaktory) November 23, 2022

At the extremity of the video – successful an interrogation with Marco Hodis – it was revealed that Bloomberg’s journalists had entree to the FTX fraud communicative successful aboriginal July but withheld the communicative due to the fact that it would beryllium “bad for business.”