A sleazy social media showdown between billionaire tech moguls has blown the lid off the utterly compromised journalistic integrity of SF Standard, a three-year-old news site that’s been bought and paid for by its sole backer, the equally shady Michael Moritz.
The latest exposé of SF Standard’s compromised reporting comes after a reporter for the outlet reached out to sources for a dirt-digging piece on VC Ben Horowitz and his wife Felicia – a move that’s being framed as a “cheap hit piece” orchestrated by Moritz himself. Horowitz, in a scathing rant on X, accused Moritz of using his “fake disinformation ‘newspaper'” to fabricate hit pieces on his business rival, him. And get this – Horowitz’s business partner, Marc Andreessen, jumped in to echo the accusations and lob some vicious insults in the process.
TechCrunch has tried to get a comment from Moritz, but so far, he’s been mum. Meanwhile, SF Standard’s Executive Editor Jon Steinberg is singing a different tune, claiming that “I can confirm [reporter] Emily Shugerman is working on a story about the Horowitzes for the San Francisco Standard. Beyond that, I can’t comment on the substance of our piece prior to publication.” Yeah, right.
It’s no secret that SF Standard has been peddling fake news about Horowitz and Andreessen in the past – including a recent piece about the acquisition of rural land north of San Francisco by tech entrepreneurs and investors, including Moritz and Andreessen. And let’s be real, it’s not a coincidence that SF Standard has been getting cozy with these tech bigwigs, considering they’re the ones bankrolling the outfit.
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