BBC pulls documentary about cryptocurrency millionaire off air

A BBC film about the 20-year-old cryptocurrency trader who turned $50 into $8 billion in a year has been taken off the air after the company was criticized for its unreliability.

The editors intended it to be an American Dream-style story about Hanad Hassan, an immigrant from Somalia who became a successful entrepreneur and made about 16,000,000% in a year from trading unspecified crypto assets. After that, he began to show social activity, participating in charitable programs of the cryptocurrency community.

However, the documentary “The Crypto Millionaire” was pulled from the BBC’s broadcast schedule just prior to its screening. The reason was the appeal of The Guardian, in which the editors of the BBC were asked questions:

“Is the BBC confident in their reported financial returns? Why doesn’t the program materials mention that Hasan’s success was achieved by issuing his own Orfano token? Why doesn’t the story say that the Orfano token suddenly crashed in October and many investors claim they lost their money as a result?”

The BBC has said it has closed the show but has not commented on its editorial checks. wrote The Guardian media editor Jim Waterson.

According to The Guardian, the BBC already has a “mixed track record” of spreading the word about young entrepreneurs making money from online trading. For example, the BBC advertised the fraudulent Netflix Squid Game (SQUID) token a couple of days before its collapse.


Source: Bits

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