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Justin Sun was called out during a spin-off Davos award event by a former CoinDesk exec Michael Casey who was unhappy with how the Tron founder managed to get the crypto publisher to remove an article.  The Davos 2025 Most Influential Awards, handed out as part of the 2025 AI & Crypto Summit, piggybacked off CoinDesk’s own 2024 Most Influential list. Sun not only won one of the awards but was also the focus of its press release.  However, despite this, another winner, CoinDesk’s former Chief Content Officer, Casey, took the opportunity to rip into Sun and CoinDesk owner Bullish over its removal of an article covering Sun’s $6 million purchase of a piece of art that consists basically of a banana taped to a wall. Justin Sun complaint leads to CoinDesk removing banana article The article, titled “I Watched Justin Sun Eat the World’s Most Expensive Banana. I Don’t Get It” details journalist Callan Quinn’s experience of watching Sun devour the $6.2 m...

Two recent opinion articles from CoinDesk, one comparing Justin Sun to SBF and Do Kwon, and another suggesting that Chainalysis had accuracy issues with its software, were recently retracted. The double retraction — a rarity for an outlet as esteemed as CoinDesk — took place on Aug US t 26 and immediately gave rise to a raft of rumors and theories. And while the real reason behind the move isn’t quite as fascinating as some have suggested, the story behind it might be. Loosely defined policy According to sources familiar with the matter, the op-ed (opposite the editorial) section at CoinDesk had a loose policy that allowed for the publishing of pieces by anonymous and pseudonymous authors . At least it didn’t explicitly forbid them. However, since the retractions, it’s become clear that this policy has changed. It’s important to put these retractions into context. CoinDesk is preparing to be sold off by its parent organization, Digital Currency Group (DCG). As it rea...