In her declaration, Bisbee admitted the company’s clustering methods “have not been peer-reviewed,” and was unaware of margins of error rates for the software,
. This led L0la L33tz to work with CoinDesk to ultimately publish a story titled, “Chainalysis Investigations Lead Is ‘Unaware’ of Scientific Evidence the Surveillance Software Works” on July 24,by Gizmodo. L0la L33tz told Gizmodo the article was received well by the editor she worked with and that sheBut that all changed in the ensuingsaying the “personal attack against a senior Chainalysis employee never should have been published.
obody at CoinDesk reached out to her to suggest corrections to alter the article or even to inform her that the story had been retracted. The editor who had previously encouraged her to continue writing about Chainalysis said they would no longer be able to take more stories from her,L0la L33tz disagreed with CoinDesk’s representation of her article as a personal attack.
“There’s a great quote that if you give man a mask he’ll give you the truth,” she said. “I think that’s very accurate. It’s nothing unheard of in journalism.”Though it’s not unheard of, anonymity can often lead to headaches for publications. In its retraction notice, CoinDesk acknowledges itand prevent them from becoming the subject of potentially dangerous doxing campaigns.
though. CoinDesk said it “cannot grant the cloak of that identity protection to a writer who launches an outright personal attack against an individual.”Advertisement