Jimmy Fallon hyped his Bored Ape NFTs on 'The Tonight Show.' Conflict of interest?

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Jimmy Fallon hyped his Bored Ape NFTs on ‘The Tonight Show.’ Conflict of interest? 📸: Chris Pizzello/AP

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within NBCUniversal mandates that all employees “disclose and obtain approval for all outside work, financial interests and other personal activities/relationships that may create or appear to create a conflict.” The same policy says that employees should not “use company info, resources, time, etc. for personal benefit.”

An NBC spokesperson said that Fallon did not violate the company’s conflict of interest policy, noting that hosts are able to promote outside projects such as books and movies.Nonfungible tokens are the latest trend for people trying to get rich, and they’re more than just a place to park money. Plus: an update on last week’s episode “Our nation’s Haitian double standard.”

Charles Davis, dean of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, said that he was “unsure whether [an entertainer] sharing the NFTs they purchased equals a plea for others to buy.” Don Heider, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and a former television journalist, said that people with as much “power and influence” as Fallon “need to be thoughtful about what they’re doing and why they’re doing it” when they blur the lines between commercial versus editorial content.

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