Nelson reports, “The suit stems from Bloomberg Businessweek’s June 23 profile of Zhao: ‘Can Crypto’s Richest Man Stand the Cold?’ But in Hong Kong, Businessweek’s local publisher Modern Media CL ran a different headline designed – according to Zhao’s representative – to spur ‘hatred, contempt and ridicule’ for the world’s richest crypto billionaire: ‘Zhao Changpeng’s Ponzi Scheme.’
“Zhao demanded a retraction, called for the edition’s removal from newsstands and for a restraining order to stop the defendants from further spreading the portrayal; Modern Media has already obliged in part. He separately filed a motion for discovery against Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, over ‘defamatory allegations’ in the profile piece.”
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A Bloomberg News spokesperson provided the following:
“We understand that Binance has filed a lawsuit against Modern Media, a company based in China that publishes a Chinese language edition of Bloomberg Businessweek and that published a translated version of a Businessweek story that first ran on June 23. The lawsuit refers to a headline that was not published in the original English language version of the story.”
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