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		JumpCrisscross on Nov 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The collapse of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fraud is looki... > is dismissed in bankruptcy court Defamation and libel cases against journalists regularly pay out. (They pay out infrequently against public figures, in part because the threshold is higher and in part because journalists are more careful with them.)

MichaelCollins on Nov 14, 2022 [–]

Bankman-Fried was paying journalists to write nice things about him, so surely he was a public figure.

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