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Prominent crypto critic says someone offered bribes to take down a blog post


Crypto critic Molly White received emails from a purported lawyer and someone working for a “reputation management company” offering bribes in exchange for the takedown of a blog post about the arrest of an alleged crypto fraudster.

For the news site’s administrator, Molly White, a software engineer and one of the world’s fiercest critics of the crypto industry, that was a routine post. At first glance, the Blogspot site appears to be some sort of a content farm filled with dozens of articles about various types of news, such as crypto fraud, sanctions against Russians, and COVID-19, going all the way back to 1995, and all authored by Woods. White told TechCrunch: “While I’m always happy to issue corrections if I have made an error, I do not remove posts simply because the people and companies I write about don’t like what I have to say.”

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