I think this news is a fud campaign from mainstream media towards binance. It all started because Mazars (auditing company) reported a 3% gap in 1:1BTC held by binance. But binance explained that those 3% are loans made to customers (which are collaterized).
This is peak FUD, read CZ+binance tweets, they explain it all very clearly.
reuters/bloomberg are behind the attack
I think this is all an attempt to distract crypto from all the horrible stuff FTX did and that is coming out (The block recently and today the fact SBF had a signal group named 'wirefraud' to discuss FTX operations)
and we all know now that FTX customer funds was used to fund US political parties and do shady stuff (which we don't know everything) so FTX had mainstream media in their pocket and was their poster boy
it is pure media distraction
there is even a report from the new FTX CEO john ray that acknowleges FTX used $5 billions of customers funds to buy properties & influence etc...
this is really bad for FTX, so mainstream projects on binance, pure FUD