Ben Todd: nobody was on record calling FTX a fraud before the collapse
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-10-12
In a follow-up to his rebuttal of philosophers' critiques of effective altruism, Ben Todd addressed the "EA was fooled by SBF" argument: leading VCs, the entire financial media, world leaders, and celebrities also fawned over him, and basically nobody was on record calling FTX a fraud before it collapsed.
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