Pretty much, I don’t even know why they mentioned Monero in the first place in that article, it’s irrelevant to the story, then followed by:

> "The arrest of IntelBroker shows just how far law enforcement has come in the crypto space,"

Woww, guys, there’s no private crypto anymore, big brother is watching you closely!!!

Stupid article.

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OutOfHere a day ago | parent [-]

> there’s no private crypto anymore

There are multiple privacycoins that exist, not limited to Monero, Zcash (with privacy features enabled), and Litecoin (with MWEB enabled). Bitcoin with Lightning Network too indirectly offers privacy, although not as strongly as the rest.

The purpose of a news article is to convey all the facts, which it does.

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tamimio a day ago | parent [-]

I know, duh, I was being sarcastic and referring to what the article is trying to frame.

> to convey all the facts, which it does.

Conveying all facts alone isn't enough, because when you start mixing some facts to influence the reader's interpretation, you are not being honest. I think this is called "priming" in journalism.

>Priming - Introducing certain information early to influence how readers interpret subsequent information, even when the early details aren't directly relevant to the main story.

The article could avoid mentioning Monero altogether, maybe at the end state that he wouldn't have been busted if he had kept using Monero, but they needed to muddy the water to give an illusion to the reader that big brother surveillance is over the top and you should never trust crypto privacy, which is not true.

	▲	OutOfHere a day ago \| parent [-]
		> I was being sarcastic It's best to never use sarcasm online unless it's explicitly declared as such at the time of posting. Your comment will be taken literally. > they needed to muddy the water to give an illusion to the reader that big brother surveillance is over the top and you should never trust crypto privacy This impression was given for Bitcoin, whereas the reverse impression was given for Monero. These are as expected.