Worst of all: in their quest to reprint a click-grabbing,...

Worst of all: in their quest to reprint a click-grabbing, doom-and-gloom number, these media outlets also ended up printing a bunch of crypto casino reviewers' optimistic predictions for the future of NFTs.

Now, I am already the kind of person who gets annoyed when media outlets reprint bunk studies, even when they are supporting conclusions that are themselves at least vaguely accurate. Others might tell me to chill out, and to spend my time worrying about all the bad data out there being used to support blatant falsehoods.

However, what annoys me in particular about this report being laundered into the mainstream news cycle is that Rolling Stone and The Guardian — in their evidently neverending quest to both-sides any issue placed in front of them — are also printing the authors’ optimistic predictions for the NFT industry. A bunch of crypto casino reviewers promoting the rosy future of NFTs probably wouldn’t have made it into multiple mainstream media outlets had it not been for the fact that it was included alongside the eye-catching, but misleading, 95% figure.

Like 25 Sep 2023 at 23:20 | Open on hachyderm.io

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Phil Rees

@molly0xfff Why draw attention to it instead of pointing to more legitimate sources that describe the negatives of NFTs?

E.g.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462962200007X

26 Sep 2023 at 1:15 | Open on mastodon.social

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