Molly White
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
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Where they publish
Newsletter Citation Needed Her newsletter on crypto, tech power and the law. Has a feed.
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- The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade 14 Sept 2026 The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists
- Issue 109 – Reg Crypto 31 Aug 2026 The SEC’s “Reg Crypto” aims to carve out exemptions, the CFTC wields emergency powers to shield prediction markets from state regulators, and a Trump family crypto firm gets a bank charter
- Issue 108 – In a word, applesauce 11 Aug 2026 Firms close up shop amid a continued crypto winter, a Trump venture ditches its crypto plans, and the Clarity Act fails to reach a vote before August recess
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- Mapping Trump’s crypto empire on Last Week Tonight 27 Jul 2026 A new Citation Needed data project maps the Trump family’s web of cryptocurrency ventures, which have been generating billions in income for the president.
- Issue 107 – An unserious offer 23 Jul 2026 The crypto industry has spent $200 million to get a bill too corrupt for Democrats to pass and a president too corrupt to sign anything that might meaningfully limit his grift.
- Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto disclosure 1 Jul 2026 The White House insists there’s no conflict of interest as Trump reports $1.4 billion in income from an industry he’s deregulated.
- Issue 106 – A tremendous birthday present 18 Jun 2026 The crypto industry spent the spring buying primaries, an octagon at the White House, and — they hope — a market-structure bill by the Fourth of July.
- Second Circuit rejects Sam Bankman-Fried’s appeal 12 Jun 2026 The Second Circuit upholds Bankman-Fried’s conviction and 25-year sentence, leaving few remaining options for the disgraced crypto executive
- End Citizens United’s Tiffany Muller on fighting big money in politics 10 Jun 2026 Tiffany Muller talks to me about what Citizens United enabled, how crypto and AI fit into the bigger picture of money in politics, and what it would actually take to fix this broken system.
- I’m launching Tech Influence Watch as AI follows crypto into politics 8 Jun 2026 Most voters don’t know that crypto and AI companies have spent more than $400 million this cycle to buy Congress. Let’s make that spending visible.
- Issue 105 – The new boogeyman 8 May 2026 A crypto billionaire who escaped fraud allegations after investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto projects is now accusing them of fraud
- President Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin is preparing to launch a “Coin Club” membership scheme 29 Apr 2026 The website promises "elite and extraordinary experiences" as part of the newest scheme to revive a token that’s down 97% from its peak and still falling.
- No new trial for Sam Bankman-Fried 28 Apr 2026 The former CEO of FTX has essentially no realistic avenues left to avoid his 25-year prison sentence
- Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial 20 Apr 2026 As the Trump family’s crypto dealings raise more alarms, crypto enforcement is falling to new lows
- Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s old firm pumps $10 million into super PAC led by Tether executive 16 Apr 2026 Cantor Fitzgerald, the Lutnick-tied financial services firm that owns a stake in and custodies reserves for the stablecoin issuer, is bankrolling a super PAC led by a Tether executive.
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Mastodon @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Posts.
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- sometimes you just have to admire the work ethic of some scammers. i can barely keep up with a couple text message chains but this guy had 60+ people convinced they were in a relationship 19 Sept 2026
- The Clarity Act cloture vote has failed by a 49–50 margin; well short of the 60 votes needed. No Democrats crossed over to vote for the bill, and three Republicans voted against. Senator Collins’ (R-ME) NO vote on Clarity was the most surprising today. She was defending the bill to constituents as recently as last week. My guess is she did not believe the bill had a chance to pass, and was more worried about defending a yes vote as her re-election prospects look slimmer. #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics 15 Sept 2026
- Newsletter: The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions in the industry-written Clarity Act exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists. Senators must vote no on cloture tomorrow. https://www.citationneeded.news/clarity-act-ethics-charade/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #ClarityAct #CitationNeededNewsletter 14 Sept 2026
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- me and my runaway zucchini patch beg to differ 13 Sept 2026
- RE: https://writing.exchange/@ernie/117252757155845794 i've gotten six of these emails today alone, and all of them are offering to cite the work that i've already researched and cited myself because i, y'know, wrote it 12 Sept 2026
- • NVIDIA DGX Spark (AI-focused PC) • Gemini Spark (AI agent) • Meta Muse Spark (LLM) can someone please inform these companies that there is more than one noun available to them #AI 12 Sept 2026
- it's funny to me that the non-RGB versions of computer hardware now sometimes go for ~$20 more than the RGB 11 Sept 2026
- made some tiny stamps out of lino scraps to make labels for my jam jars #printmaking #linocut 8 Sept 2026
- make bad art 6 Sept 2026
- A Wikipedia editor put it well: "You almost want to pat them on the head and say 'Yes, of course it will' in the same way you'd tell a small child that Santa Claus will be delivering their presents." 5 Sept 2026
- Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers. https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/2026-09-04-us-wikimedia-foundation-workers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-form-union-with-cwa/ #Wikipedia #WikimediaFoundation 5 Sept 2026
- Newsletter: The SEC’s “Reg Crypto” aims to carve out exemptions, the CFTC wields emergency powers to shield prediction markets from state regulators, and a Trump family crypto firm gets a bank charter. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-109/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics 31 Aug 2026
- A bit rich for Senator Bernie Moreno — by far the #1 beneficiary of crypto super PAC spending in 2024, now a champion of the industry's legislation — to accuse anyone of caping for special interest super PACs #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics 29 Aug 2026
- there should be a term for the specific psychosis that kicks in once a tech founder's net worth hits ten figures and he starts talking about AMH levels 27 Aug 2026
- crypto billionaire Justin Sun has posted an extremely long, extremely weird Twitter post detailing a previous relationship with Chinese actress Jing Tian, suggesting she reneged on a $50 million agreement to use her eggs to have a child with a surrogate (screenshots machine translated) #JustinSun 27 Aug 2026
- delighted to discover that a) Jimothy has a Wikipedia picture and b) it's this #Jimothy 21 Aug 2026
- Spotted in Coinbase’s most recent 10-Q: Coinbase has stopped using trading volume as a key metric, which is I’m sure completely unrelated to the 38%/48% decrease in spot trading volume they reported over the past three/six months #Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency 11 Aug 2026
- Newsletter: Firms close up shop amid a continued crypto winter, a Trump venture ditches its crypto plans, and the crypto industry–friendly Clarity Act market structure bill fails to reach a vote before August recess — likely dooming it. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-108/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter 11 Aug 2026
- well that sucks. apparently the ALA/Freedom To Read Foundation have trademarks on the phrase "free people read freely", which i use in a lino print i made into stickers a few years ago. i got the phrase from a 2023 speech by librarian and former ALA leader Tracie D. Hall. i didn't think to check if it was trademarked because, lol, what a wild thing to trademark. turns out the trademark had been granted two months before i made the print. it's no big deal from a business perspective — i don't sell these stickers for much more than they cost, because i mostly just think it's an important messag… 9 Aug 2026
- RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113801357461741537 It's a year and a half after I highlighted the issue, but nice to see: 5 Aug 2026 arstechnica.com
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Beliefs
Korrents What they believe 12 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
Each is a — compiled by korrents.com, not by them: the one-line wordings are korrents', the quotes are theirs.
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What has gone wrong online belongs to the industry that grew up around the web, not to the web itself, which is still a substrate anyone can build on.
The web is still just a substrate on which anything can be built. Most importantly, the web is the people who use it, not the companies that have established themselves around it.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
Whether the open web survives will be decided by what ordinary people collectively do, not by the companies that profit from it.
But the platforms do not exist without the people, and there are a lot more of us than there are of them.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.
What is out there is buried among ever-growing piles of useless content farm material or, increasingly, AI-generated garbage.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
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Websites outside the big platforms have become hard to find at all, and that is a large part of why they can no longer sustain themselves.
Websites outside of these handful of social networks are harder and harder to even find, and partially because of that, they have a harder and harder time sustaining themselves.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
One person building something honest and small can shift how a whole industry is seen, without a platform or a job at a big publication.
And it doesn’t always take a job at The New York Times or a huge pre-established platform to become one of the voices speaking up, helping to turn that tide.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
A dominant platform is more fragile than it looks, because pushing users far enough makes even the locked-in ones leave.
The platforms have installed themselves in a position of power, but they are also vulnerable. They must do everything perfectly to maintain that position of power—not enrage their users too much, not push the regulators too far, not miss any of those competitors who are seeking to take a portion of that power.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
Your own site stays the master source even once the work is syndicated everywhere else.
With this model, even when a platform goes under, you lose relatively little: your posts still remain live and under your control on your site, even if the copies of them on the disconnected website are abandoned or deleted.
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world Said 27 Sept 2024
Publishing on your own site first removes the length, format and style limits that every social platform imposes on what you can say.
Next to proper ownership of your own work, my favorite thing about POSSE is that it massively expands what you can publish, far beyond the limitations imposed by most social media (and especially microblogging) platforms that try to enforce some uniformity in post style, length, and appearance.
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world Said 27 Sept 2024
Federation is the real fix for losing your community every time a platform dies, but it does not work yet, so publishing on your own site and syndicating out is the interim answer.
I think federation is the long-term solution to these problems. Eventually, I dream we will be able to seamlessly interact with people across platforms.
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world Said 27 Sept 2024
Every migration to a new platform costs a community members it never gets back, and everyone has a limit on how many times they will pay it.
Each shift takes its toll, and everyone has a limit of how much energy they’re willing to expend on a new platform that will eventually, like its predecessors, join the graveyard of defunct websites.
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world Said 27 Sept 2024
Nothing about the web technically prevents a return to what people loved about the old web; the good old days are available and would be easier to build now than they ever were.
The thing is: none of this is gone. Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back.
We can have a different web Said 1 May 2024
Most people now spend their time online inside a handful of platforms, seeing what the owners of those platforms steer them towards.
Most of us spend our days within the confines of a handful of platforms, wandering around to admire what people have done with the seeds they are allowed in the space they are allotted, with platform owners directing us to the gardens they think we might like — or, more often, the ones they think will keep us within their walls for longer.
We can have a different web Said 1 May 2024
Beliefs others hold too
The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading. 3 hold this
What is out there is buried among ever-growing piles of useless content farm material or, increasingly, AI-generated garbage.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
Whether the open web survives will be decided by what ordinary people collectively do, not by the companies that profit from it. 2 hold this
But the platforms do not exist without the people, and there are a lot more of us than there are of them.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
A dominant platform is more fragile than it looks, because pushing users far enough makes even the locked-in ones leave. 2 hold this
The platforms have installed themselves in a position of power, but they are also vulnerable. They must do everything perfectly to maintain that position of power—not enrage their users too much, not push the regulators too far, not miss any of those competitors who are seeking to take a portion of that power.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
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