Here's why 'news' attacking Gary Gensler is all over crypto media
News that Gary Gensler was going to resign from the SEC went viral last week. Just one problem: AI wrote it. In fact, it was so obviously AI-generated that a researcher was able to confirm its inauthenticity by simply asking another AI. Oh, the irony. Shortly after, follow-up research and the SEC itself confirmed that news of Gary Gensler’s resignation was fake. Through the thick fog of misinformation, however, one thing became clear: the incident exposed the rabid, anti-Gary Gensler bias of crypto media. Indeed, it has never been more popular to hate the SEC chair. The hashtag #FireGaryGensler regularly trends on Twitter. Google search queries for ‘Gary Gensler’ are at all-time highs and contrast sharply against ‘SEC’ searches, which remain mid-range within a multi-year average. Of course, the timing seems awfully convenient. As chair of the SEC, he and his four commissioners have recently sued the largest crypto exchanges serving US residents, including C...