Question Number 1 through Infinity: Is this impacting your business? Actually? Today?
I'd suggest keeping an eye on things but not getting too bent out of shape. The video didn't call your company a scam; it said that scammers have been using your domain. And the news has gotten pretty limited reach, mostly in a small news market -- and a bit in the niche market of cybersecurity. Kicking up too much of a stink, especially ineffectually, might create a Streisand Effect.
If it is impacting your business, then the answer you perhaps don't want to hear: This is crisis comms. This is a job for a PR/crisis comms agency.
If you can't afford one, you're going to have to fake your way through some heavy lifting. Press releases, pitching reporters, etc.
I'd focus, in part, on making people comfortable with the idea of your project and your vision as something normal and safe. I wouldn't draw DOGE comparisons. "DOGE" is a four-letter word to a lot of people.
Separately, you may have legal options -- vis-a-vis defamation or other matters: KHON seems to be saying that links ending with codify.inc "always" indicates a scam. If that's not true, that's something probably correctable. (But that doesn't mean you need to necessarily drop a fat retainer on a lawyer's desk if you're not looking to collect $$$. An email to a relevant editor could sort that out.)
I'd suggest keeping an eye on things but not getting too bent out of shape. The video didn't call your company a scam; it said that scammers have been using your domain. And the news has gotten pretty limited reach, mostly in a small news market -- and a bit in the niche market of cybersecurity. Kicking up too much of a stink, especially ineffectually, might create a Streisand Effect.
If it is impacting your business, then the answer you perhaps don't want to hear: This is crisis comms. This is a job for a PR/crisis comms agency.
If you can't afford one, you're going to have to fake your way through some heavy lifting. Press releases, pitching reporters, etc.
I'd focus, in part, on making people comfortable with the idea of your project and your vision as something normal and safe. I wouldn't draw DOGE comparisons. "DOGE" is a four-letter word to a lot of people.
Separately, you may have legal options -- vis-a-vis defamation or other matters: KHON seems to be saying that links ending with codify.inc "always" indicates a scam. If that's not true, that's something probably correctable. (But that doesn't mean you need to necessarily drop a fat retainer on a lawyer's desk if you're not looking to collect $$$. An email to a relevant editor could sort that out.)