Media Draws Attention to Sam Bankman-Fried’s 2 Visits While on House Arrest – Bitcoin News

When FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was released on bail and traveled to his parents’ home in California, it is reported that SBF was visited by crypto advocate Tiffany Fong and also “Big Short” author Michael Lewis. when he has been under house arrest. Fong detailed that he managed to interview SBF, while Lewis visited to learn about the fall of the FTX empire for the author’s upcoming book.

SBF gets 2 visitors under house arrest and before his trial on January 3rd in New York

Since SBF was released on bail, reports note that two people have been granted access to the disgraced former FTX CEO while he is under house arrest. Tiffany Fong naked that he met with SBF and noted that he hadn’t written anything yet when he tweeted about his conversation with SBF on December 28.

The next day, The New York Post published an article about Fong’s visit, and the authors of the article, Selim Algar, Andy Tillett, and Patrick Reilly, chose to call Fong a “sexy crypto-influencer.” The Post also used a photo of Fong in a bikini, and when the article was published, Fong was not happy with the photo. “Jesus fkn christ,” Fong saidshare the article.

Fong too detailed that she “obviously wasn’t wearing a bikini” when she interviewed SBF, and she said The Post “decided to sneak [through her] old photos.” In addition to The Post, the Daily Mail also published an article about her visit, and Fong said Daily Mail reporters pointed out that she was not happy with the use of an unrelated old bikini photo in The Post article.

“As soon as I offered a piece of commentary in response to their questions, [Daily Mail] they immediately changed the picture of me to a bikini picture, Fong said, sharing a screenshot of the original article and then a modified version. In addition to Fong’s statements, The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz tweeted about the treatment Fong received from The Post and Daily Mail.

“[Tiffany Fong] has received big scoops tirelessly handling FTX,” Lorenz tweeted. “She’s respected by mainstream tech/finance reporters at Wapo, NYT, etc. She does journalism, but because she’s a young woman (and uses the internet to reach her audience), the media treats her that way.”

Fong also tweeted about how The Post wrote an article about “Big Short” author Michael Lewis’ visit with SBF when he said:

Michael Lewis actually “spent several hours” with Sam Bankman-Fried before me. Is Michael Lewis sexualized [and] bombarded with questions about are they “bombed?”

The Lewis article published by The New York Post is much different than Fong’s article, and does not show Lewis in swimming trunks or speeding tickets. The Post’s editorial about Lewis is pretty similar to much of the writing about the writers of “Big Short,” “Moneyball” and “Flash Boys” having to spend six months with SBF before FTX collapsed.

The Post article highlights how Lewis’s “publishing office [is] pitching the book to potential film rights buyers’ and reports of the pitch sale were made public well before SBF’s arrest. News of SBF’s two visitors to house arrest after being released also follows allegations that the former CEO of FTX moved $684,000 in crypto assets linked to addresses in Alameda. In the Post’s article, the authors elaborated that Fong had also discovered that SBF was on his computer during the conversation between the two.

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Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman is the news director of Bitcoin.com News and a financial technology reporter based in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He is passionate about Bitcoin, open source and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written over 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about disruptive protocols appearing today.