I honestly think that this move is a Zuck masterstroke that anticipated regulatory action against his sprawling social media monopoly. If the lawmakers had had any idea what was going on with Big Tech, they would have absolutely blocked the Whatsapp acquisition. Although, ironically, that would have probably led to Tencent buying Whatsapp, which in the long run would have probably pissed Trump off even more.
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Although I do not think most politicians are geniuses, their corporate sponsors are, surely, less naive. This smells like floating something made deliberately controversial so as to water it down to what they really wanted. And what might that be? A digital totalitarianism? :-)
The IMF has been saying interesting things about the long game.
God knows what the end game is, but yeah you get what I’m saying. Libra seems too obviously controversial not to be a Trojan Horse. What is really inside? I dunno.
Maybe it’s just, “Don’t take my IG/WA away please, Massah!”
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