Two US senate Democrats are urging three payment processing companies to reconsider their involvement with the libra cryptocurrency project envisioned by Facebook and a coalition of other groups.
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PayPal has pulled out of the Libra Association, a blow to Facebook’s efforts to develop a digital currency.
Facebook has made mistakes in controlling the use of its data and has improved its monitoring of fake news but can’t be expected to police the global Internet, spokesman Nick Clegg said.