Earlier this year, stating that blockchain reward tokens are often associated with deceptive or misleading promotional practices, Facebook announced that it will ban all advertising for cryptocurrencies. Recently, however, the CEO of the social network launched a blockchain division. In addition to this, there are a few reports of Facebook planning to create its own […]
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The spread of hate speech has not ceased on the micro-blogging giant. According to a report by the Anti-Defamation League, Twitter saw over 4.2 million anti-Semitic tweets last year (between 29 January 2017 and 28 January 2018). The report, which was released recently, noted that millions of anti-Semitic tweets were shared or re-shared on the […]
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Governments and regulatory authorities such as central banks were initially opposed to the idea of decentralized cryptocurrencies. This reaction was warranted by factors like their loss of control over the regulation of money, and more prominently, by concern about the use of cryptocurrency for illegal purposes. The fight against illegal activities Governments believe that cryptocurrencies […]
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised earlier in 2018 that the company would spend this year fixing the social media platform to address its fake news problem. The tech company, which has over 2.2 billion users as of January 2018, is facing a lot of censure for not being able to solve the issue of hate […]
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Early proponents of Satoshi Nakamoto’s innovation of Bitcoin would be horrified by outside regulation. Bitcoin was supposed to be a completely decentralized system where interference from governments was unnecessary, even obsolete. It seems now, however, that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin cannot govern themselves and they do need some outside regulation. Although die-hard crypto fans may be […]
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