Molly White's tweet - "Around fifteen researchers and critics have annotated @kevinroose's thinly-veiled cryptocurrency advertisement that ran in the @nytimes last Sunday. We try to provide the editorial scrutiny and critical perspectives that the piece so irresponsibly lacked. "

@molly0xFFF | 99,816 followers

Around fifteen researchers and critics have annotated @kevinroose's thinly-veiled cryptocurrency advertisement that ran in the @nytimes last Sunday. We try to provide the editorial scrutiny and critical perspectives that the piece so irresponsibly lacked.
mollywhite.net/annotations/la…

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Total of 29 replies and 56 quotes found

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Molly White

@molly0xFFF

Thank you to @MattBinder, @Grady_Booch, @ahcastor, @smdiehl, @MikeBurgersburg, @CatherineFlick, @davidgerard, @GeoffreyHuntley, @BennettTomlin, @neilturkewitz, @edzitron, and the anonymous contributors for your amazing efforts!

tante

@tante

This is what a @nytimes text should have done. Be critical and provide context. Not just do PR.

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Stephen Diehl

@smdiehl

Brilliant work as always. Because it's about making journalism on this topic better and holding the New York Times to the highest standard the publication rightly deserves. Because that's what we all need to do collective sense making.

Simon Willison

@simonw

This is a really well designed way of presenting annotations from multiple collaborators pic.twitter.com/gMNFev2n2a

@coloradotravis@mastodon.cloud

@coloradotravis

Vaguely disheartening to see @nytimes let this sort of slipshod ‘journalism’ run.

But also quite heartening to see citizens perform the intended function of the 4th estate and swiftly call it out.

This is decentralization I’d bet on: people, not hare-brained tech.

Web1 4 lyfe

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Jathan Sadowski

@jathansadowski

This is the only way anybody could ever get me to read that massive puff piece. What a great idea, and done so quickly.

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Molly White

@molly0xFFF

the "more":

Ashley Lake

@AshleyLatke

Thank you!!!!!! lol Jesus

Bookmarking to read on a laptop later. pic.twitter.com/IGyjGvY1jQ

David Grossman

@davidgross_man

imagine writing an article so misleading an entire community forms around countering your narrative

Richard Lawler

@rjcc

👀👀

Patrick

@vectorpark

I’m only partway through, but this collaborative annotation/evisceration of the NYT’s Sunday crypto supplement is both a great, informative read and a pretty remarkable document in its own right. I can imagine this format for criticism applied to many other kinds of stories.

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Toronto Will

@TorontoWill

This is a phenomenal piece of work pulling this all together, brilliantly done. I really hope that people who are genuinely confused about crypto, and were led astray by the NYT piece, will be curious enough to find it.

In reply to @molly0xFFF

dfern.eth 🦇🔊 🇺🇦

@dfern_eth

Now @kevinroose has to write a response including the SHA-3 of yours, then you can respond to his response by taking the SHA-3 of his, thereby forming a verifiable chain of criticism going back to the genesis newspaper article. 🤔

Stuart Langridge

@sil

"No technology is "sober" or "dispassionate" in its creation, nor is it neutral or apolitical, and thus anyone who is claiming to view it from that perspective is DEFINITELY selling you something." -- wisdom about blockchains, and all other stuff, from Dr @CatherineFlick

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Linus Willner

@linuswillner

Anything that requires currying good favour with Twitter of all sordid things should immediately be consigned to the dustbin. pic.twitter.com/riJlESXcef

Ceej "oh well" Silverio

@ceejbot

This is great.

In reply to @molly0xFFF

steve o'grady

@sogrady

@molly0xFFF is a force of nature

Chris Stokel-Walker ~ @stokel@infosec.exchange

@stokel

Here's a thing.

Beninem.eth

@JLHeartsCrypto

This is literally the stupidest fucking anti-crypto thing I've read in a long time.
They think they're providing editorial scrutiny when in fact they themselves are creating their own massive 'Citation Missing' and 'Very Subjective' piece here.

Case in point...I mean wtf man: pic.twitter.com/Mo1DT3mLQj

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Adam Tigar 🐅

@AdamTigar

I read it when it came out, so glad there's a full-on critique I can point to now The article left a reeaaallly bad taste in my mouth

Lean Media

@leanmediaorg

Re 20% crypto ownership stat cited by @kevinroose in the NYT:

"This number came from a study with a sample size of 2,200 people, and which did not disclose anything about how subjects were recruited."

And if it was an online survey, we don't even know they were people.

#nft

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Pit Schultz

@pitsch

the wiki way

@richburroughs@hachyderm.io

@richburroughs

This looks amazing.

Jeffrey Jose

@jeffjose

When people talk about "remix'ing" the web, this is what I dream of.

We gotta have more of these on the web.

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Q҉n҉J҉v҉V҉3҉J҉l҉b҉j҉Y҉4҉N҉g҉=҉=҉

@browren

It's interesting how crypto is alone responsible for the pollution caused by the power plants it draws from, while central banks get a pass, despite using at least twice as much power in total.

Catie is @liedra@mastodon.social

@liedra

I was part of this and very honoured to be invited.

BATstronaut 🦇🔊

@batstronaut

You'd hope breathless criticisms of a lack of thorough reporting would themselves be properly researched. Even a cursory search shows that @Helium is very much not WiFi hotspots. But yeah, I trust "Anonymous 2" the crypto critic more than The New York Times. Thanks for saving me. pic.twitter.com/Ao0zTiaizO

Dr. Emma L Briant @emmalbriant@mastodon.social

@EmmaLBriant

Excellent 😆

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Andy @duremar@mindly.social ℬebut

@abebut

Offtopic: $mim can be depegging as we speak: pic.twitter.com/6eGIVXol7u

Dan York

@danyork

READ THIS! This is brilliant work to annotate the #cryptocurrency advertisement that ran as an “article” in the New York Times last weekend. Fantastic work to point out the MANY errors and false claims in the article…

#Web3 #Crypto #Bitcoin #blockchain #cryptocurrencies

Mythreyi M.😷

@MissMythreyi

This is actually informative read now.

For example, pic.twitter.com/3OH5qeDceC

In reply to @molly0xFFF

branigan.eth ⌐◨-◨

@betterlawMLA

so brave!

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Martin Ferrini

@mferrini

Fantastic breakdown Molly & crew! How does one "accidentally" sell an NFT for $500k anyway?🤔

Royce Williams (@tychotithonus@infosec.exchange)

@TychoTithonus

Very valuable work - illustrates point by point why it was clearly a puff piece.

The other sections need same treatment, e.g.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
*Super* hard to believe this was *inadvertently* glossing over the distinction that *you don't actually own the sculpture.* pic.twitter.com/xRX3SbgLG0

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Andreas Fredriksson

@deplinenoise

You are doing amazing work Molly!

Linus Larsson

@LinusLarsson

Den här ska ni läsa.

Brett Witty

@BrettWitty

This is a great analysis of an advertisement for cryptocurrency masquerading as a sober piece on the technology.

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Nándor Hulverscheidt

@nanhul

Your comments made this wierd piece one of the best on the topic that I've read in a long time. Thanks for the hard work picking it apart. The @nytimes better review their editing process and hand you some of my money (which is nothing - to be fair, their offer is kinda nice).

🌱 Peter Van Dijck

@petervandijck

Fully trashes the article, into dust.

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Herrklärer 🦆

@Theobius

Cryto makes Bernie Madoff look like an amateur hack Why the acceptance of individuals involved that should set off every gut reaction? Example: "Nobody Caribou", Nicholas St. Louis, an Ottawa foot therapist, was part of the Russia backed "Freedom Convoy" crypto team. pic.twitter.com/o7TwItrshC

Mitch Kowalski

@MEKowalski

👇👇👇👇

Ken Andrade

@k808a

If the tide of #cryptocurrencies promotion is threatening to erode your skepticism like it did to @nytimes, read this first.

🌻 Vortmax 🌻

@Vortmax

Crypto is a scam, continued.

Mike Riverso

@MikeRiverso

This is just incredible.

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Adam

@Thongdam07

Thanks. This was a great read.

Dan Ancona 🪓 🌈 ⚔️

@DanAncona

This is fantastic and crucial:

In reply to @molly0xFFF

Chris Holcomb

@Ideamotor

WOW. I knew tech coverage on NYT was misinformed but this ... This is just shameful. Why did @nytimes publish this unethical garbage?

ElisabethVig

@sprogs

This is true public service!

Torkel Ödegaard

@torkelo

“Yeah, market cap is a meaningless number. It assumes everyone bought at the current price and could cash out at the current price.”

Dr. Kamal Kapadia 🪷

@kamal_kapadia

Worth a read (along with the original NYT article on crypto they are dissecting):

Mark Allerton

@MarkAllerton

Taking apart an “unbiased” guide to cryptocurrency - this is great.

pyrrhic victory

@anthonylauro_

Everyone should read this ⬇️

In reply to @molly0xFFF

printers

@pringers_

Great stuff from everyone involved.

Derek Fox

@partialobs

This is extraordinarily good

In reply to @molly0xFFF

john

@ClassicJ0hn

‘s comment 😂

notsure.eth

@NotSureBTC

Wow this is some grade-A copium. The worst rebuttal was the one about market cap. Most of the crypto market cap sits in $BTC and $ETH, which have plenty of liquidity tyvm.