Washington Post mocked for mourning FTX founder now can't stop another pandemic: 'Dumbest take imaginable'

A Washington Post editor faced intense backlash for promoting a piece that Twitter users say attempted to make FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried look altruistic.

At its peak FTX was the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, but it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections on Friday, and the company confirmed over the weekend that millions of dollars worth of assets are unaccounted for. The company's founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, faces allegations that he secretly transferred $10 billion from FTX to Alameda Research, his hedge fund that also filed for bankruptcy. Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, during an interview on an episode of Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein in New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug 17, 2022.  (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, during the Bloomberg Crypto Summit in New York, US, on Tuesday, July 19, 2022.  (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Washington Post logo outside of the building covered with snow. (Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post via Getty Images) Nikolas Lanum is an associate editor for Fox News Digital.