SBF on Funding Progressive Journalism: I’m Just Supporting ‘Good Media Ventures’

‘That was the whole thesis there’

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BANKMAN-FRIED: “I think media matters a lot, and I wanted to support good media ventures. That was the whole thesis there. You know, I don’t have, like, governance over any of these. I wasn’t looking for governance over them. I was looking to support journalists doing great work because I think what they do is really important and I think that there needs to be a critical eye on stories. I’m certainly seeing, being on the — getting the brunt of a lot of that right now, and you know, frankly, I think it’s healthy for the world that there is real investigative journalism.”

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