Justin Sun urged CoinDesk to remove the banana Articles.

The Tron -3.9% Tron founder's team reportedly went to Bullish, a cryptocurrency exchange company that purchased the media outlet for $75 million last year, to request that an article about Justin Sun consuming Maurizio Cattelan's $6.2 million banana artwork be taken down, according to a Fortune report released on December 18.

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The piece, titled "I Watched Justin Sun Eat the World's Most Expensive Banana," was released in late November. I Don't Get It," which described Sun's legal issues with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the significance of the banana, and the background of the act itself.

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According to insiders Fortune spoke with, Bullish demanded that CoinDesk take the article down from its website because Sun's team didn't like the tone of the piece. At a meeting last week, the CoinDesk editorial staff reacted negatively to this request, stating that they disagreed with the decision and requested that the item be restored with an editor's note.

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The story titled "I Watched Justin Sun Eat the World's Most Expensive Banana" was found via an internet search on markelitics news. I Don't Get It." was nowhere to be located on the publication's website. It is still accessible on Yahoo News, though. The last update to this article was made on December 2. 

Interestingly, the CoinDesk article also mentioned how Sun's legal team had a history of threatening to sue news organisations, particularly for stories that hinted at the Tron blockchain being abused to finance illegal activity. Additionally noteworthy is Tron's significant sponsorship of CoinDesk's Consensus conference series.

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The story claims that despite Fortune's repeated efforts for comment, Bullish CEO Tom Farley has not replied. Similarly, neither Justin Sun's spokeswoman nor CoinDesk's editor-in-chief Kevin Reynolds have corroborated Fortune's conclusions.

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Additionally, according to insiders, CoinDesk's editorial committee chair Matt Murray resigned on Monday, December 16. However, Fortune's request for comment was turned down by Murray. 

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