BitBoy Crypto sues fellow YouTuber Atozy for defamation over shilling claims

cointelegraph.com:

Two prominent YouTube content creators are set to lock horns in a legal battle over a cryptocurrency video allegedly promoting a project that ended up being a scam.

Bitboy Crypto, a YouTube channel founded by Ben Armstrong, produces a variety of content focused on cryptocurrency news, projects and tokens and trading advice. The channel has been active since February 2018 and has over 1.4 million subscribers.

The channel is known for its news pieces and trading-focused videos with headlines like ‘Top 3 Coins To Outperform Ethereum! (Strong Short Term Play)’ typifying the type of content disseminated to viewers.

While these videos purport to offer trading advice, the channel has a disclaimer clearly stating that Armstrong is not ‘a professional advisor in business areas involving finance, cryptocurrency, taxation, securities and commodities trading, or the practice of law.’ The channel’s content states that it is meant for general information purposes only.

Bitboy Crypto has copped criticism from the wider cryptocurrency community in the past for allegedly misleading viewers about various tokens and projects. Armstrong has attempted to rebut these claims, with a prime example being a fiery podcast conversation hosted by cryptocurrency investor Anthony Pompliano in November 2021.

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An incident involving comments posted by another YouTuber on a BitBoy video from 2020 has led Armstrong to seek legal recourse. Erling Mengshoel Jr, better known by his YouTube channel name Atozy, came across a now-deleted video on the Bitboy channel promoting a project called Pamp network token in 2020.

The project ended on a sour note as investors were left empty-handed after a