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.
There, Zhao took issue with the article’s portrayal of Binance as “sketchy” and with an anonymous quote from a trader that called Binance a “massive shitcoin casino.” These statements “were obviously designed to mislead readers into believing” that Zhao was breaking the law, the motion read.
Source: Binance CEO Sues Bloomberg’s Hong Kong Partner for Defamation
