David Z. Morris

David Z. Morris, PhD. is a pioneering technology reporter, fraud investigator and financial analyst. His book on the FTX fraud, “Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia” is forthcoming from Repeater Books.

He is a former chief columnist for CoinDesk and staff reporter for Fortune Magazine. His work has appeared in a wide range of outlets, including Slate, The Atlantic, Aeon, Bitcoin Magazine, The Rage, and Protos.

David played a major role in highlighting and unpacking billion-dollar frauds at Terraform Labs and FTX, and covered the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried in depth. At Fortune, he conducted major investigations of alleged frauds at Nikola Motor and Tesla.

David’s continuing coverage of scams, fraud, and financial crime is available every week in the Dark Markets newsletter.

David is also a former social scientist, and holds a doctorate in media history from the University of Iowa. He has served as a visiting scholar at the Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) and the University of South Florida.

This website is under construction. Find David on Twitter at @davidzmorris, and subscribe to the Dark Markets Newsletter at davidzmorris.substack.com.