EA Community Backlash as Fund Leader Behind Billion-Dollar Collapse Stays in the Ecosystem
livgorton · x · 2026-09-12
The EA (effective altruism) community faces renewed governance backlash: a leader who ran a fund that spent billions of customers' money before collapsing has landed employment within the same community. Author livgorton says the community "keeps handing the keys back," forcing anyone identifying with EA to explain itself yet again. She later clarified she wrote the post upset but stands by it: the community can't control how its label is understood, and there are frequent decisions she considers bad and won't defend.
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