ProPublica received money from SBF as grant.

SBF invested in Semafor.

then you got NYT event with SBF as speaker https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1595587141694021633?s=...

the picture is meme but its real. SBF is a featured speaker before the FTX collapsed.

then you got Ben Smith from Semafor going back and forward with Elon about who got money from SBF.

https://twitter.com/semaforben/status/1595521488332931072?s=...

you also got this article from Forbes about SBF using none profit to hide behind.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2022/11/14/sam-bankma...

the rabbit hole is just too deep for me. i just check Twitter blue checkers for FTX. a lot of them break the news first.

my conclusion is SBF put up a good front as a do gooder.

i feel bad for some real do gooders who received money from SBF. for example,

"Nathan Young, a researcher who was given $182,000 in June to create “a website for collaboratively creating public forecasting questions for a range of prediction aggregators and markets,” said on Twitter he feels guilty about receiving money from FTX. “Likely the fraud was already happening when the money was donated. That weighs on me,” Young wrote."

here is his tweet: https://twitter.com/NathanpmYoung/status/1590914873520967680...

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/11/u-s-justice-departmen...

Everyone can get a PACER logon and use the free tier to read the court filings for themselves.

https://pacer.uscourts.gov

https://www.zerohedge.com/

I will warn you that it does have some nonsense articles, so you have to think critically. They have many writers and some are just bad while there are some good writings once in awhile.

Some rare journalism here actually. Chopping block panel is also fun, albeit opinionated. But they're informed and definitely not siding with SBF here.

That litmus test shows your claim that mainstream media is only writing puff pieces is just wrong.