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   Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:19:52 JST Laffy

   Bloomberg:

   Elon #Musk 's X announced a partnership with Visa on Tuesday that would allow users of the social media platform to send money to one another

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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:19:50 JST Nicole Parsons

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     • atticus1956

     @Atticus1956 @GottaLaff

     The tech industry has wanted to sidestep banking oversight & financial regulations for a long time. Tax evasion is part of it.

     Cryptocurrency is a vehicle for foreign money in elections, straw donor schemes, & malign influence campaigns. AI helps hide the money laundering.

     https://www.exus.co.uk/blog/facebook-and-libra-how-social-media-companies-are-getting-into-banking-and-what-banks-can-do-about-it

     Meta's Zuckerberg is visibly panting over access to user's banking.
     https://www.tomshardware.com/news/banks-data-sharing-facebook,37556.html

     https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/18-11-2024/banks-are-grappling-with-a-scam-crisis-while-facebook-profits-from-it

     https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/facebook-banking/23797/

     https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-data-well-give-you-our-users-1533564049

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     atticus1956 (atticus1956@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:19:51 JST atticus1956

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     @GottaLaff Making it easier for the "faithful" to purchase Trump griftable items from him and each other?

     Robert Link repeated this.
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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:21:15 JST Robert Link

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     • Nicole Parsons
     • atticus1956

     @Npars01 @Atticus1956 @GottaLaff Because it's a joint Thiel/CIA scam at its inception?

     https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook