Watch the trailer for ‘The Altruists,’ Netflix’s show about the FTX scandal
In Brief Posted: 11:30 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 Image Credits:Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Amanda Silberling Watch the trailer for ‘The Altruists,’ Netflix’s show about the FTX scandal It’s a great time to be alive if you follow tech news and love messy drama. We’re not just getting a Nathan Fielder documentary about Elizabeth Holmes this fall. Netflix’s “The Altruists,” which follows Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison through the scandal that crushed FTX and landed them in prison, is coming out on November 19.
- ▪In Brief Posted: 11:30 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 Image Credits:Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Amanda Silberling Watch the trailer for ‘The Altruists,’ Netflix’s show about the FTX scandal It’s a great time to be alive if you follo
- ▪We’re not just getting a Nathan Fielder documentary about Elizabeth Holmes this fall.
- ▪Netflix’s “The Altruists,” which follows Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison through the scandal that crushed FTX and landed them in prison, is coming out on November 19.
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In Brief Posted: 11:30 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 Image Credits:Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Amanda Silberling Watch the trailer for ‘The Altruists,’ Netflix’s show about the FTX scandal It’s a great time to be alive if you follow tech news and love messy drama. We’re not just getting a Nathan Fielder documentary about Elizabeth Holmes this fall. Netflix’s “The Altruists,” which follows Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison through the scandal that crushed FTX and landed them in prison, is coming out on November 19. It’s just in time for Thanksgiving, assuming that another infamous Sam doesn’t ruin our holiday plans again.
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