Investigation: after Trump returned to the White House, the SEC eased up on or dismissed 60%+ of ongoing crypto cases, including ones about Trump-tied companies
So Why the Headline? New York Times : How The Times Analyzed the S.E.C.'s Cryptocurrency Enforcement X: Alex Thorn / @intangiblecoins : i really want to believe that NYT is trustworthy but that has be...
A look at Ross Ulbricht's return to public life after Trump pardoned him in January, including speaking at Bitcoin 2025 in May and accepting ~$31M in donations
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/t... @jlray : Kinda weird one of the first things Trump did at the start of this term was set free one of the world's deadliest drug dealers, who is not only utterly remorse...
Email: the World Federation of Advertisers discontinues activities of its nonprofit, GARM, following X's antitrust lawsuit, but intends to contest X's claims
what's next for advertisers looking for controls Vish Gain / Silicon Republic : Not-for-profit ad group GARM shuts down after X lawsuit Seb Joseph / Digiday : Elon Musk's lawsuit shatters GARM, reveal...
X sues the World Federation of Advertisers, GARM, and GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted, and Unilever over what Linda Yaccarino calls an “illegal boycott”
In an all-hands at X, formerly Twitter, CEO Linda Yaccarino attempted … Karissa Bell / Engadget : X sues advertisers for ‘illegal boycott’ of the platform Grace Eliza Goodwin / Business Insider : Elon...
Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”
Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
Sources: the Treasury Department has been investigating US-based crypto exchange Kraken since 2019 for potentially violating US sanctions on Iran and more
shocked face https://twitter.com/... Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : @yaffebellany This story follows one from last month on the internal divisions at Kraken that have been stoked by CEO Jesse Powell. We learned...
The US DOJ arrests a former Coinbase product manager for allegedly leaking insider info about tokens before they were listed; Coinbase won't face charges
On the evening of Sunday, May 15, 2022, ISHAN WAHI purchased a one-way flight to India that was scheduled to depart the next day shortly before ISHAN WAHI was supposed to be interviewed by Coinbase.” ...
In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement “inaccurate”
But Only If You're an Advertiser Danny Bradbury / IT PRO : FTC scolds Facebook for citing it in researcher ban Pluralistic : Facebook's official disinformation research portal is a bad joke (permalink...
In response to Oversight Board ruling, Facebook suspends Trump's accounts until January 7, 2023, and says it will then reconsider suspension if conditions allow
but not until at least 2023 Transparency Center : Counting strikes — If you post content that goes against the Facebook Community Standards … Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Facebook's two-year Trum...
Documents from an ACLU lawsuit show Microsoft tried to sell facial recognition tech to the DEA in late 2017, six months before the company called for regulation
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News :