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Facebook Co-Founder Calls Its Cryptocurrency Plans ‘Frightening’
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Facebook’s big digital currency play could sow instability in the developing countries it struggles to understand.
Taylor Hatmaker
Senior Technology Editor
Published
Jun. 21 2019
9:51PM EDT
Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty
Taylor Hatmaker
Senior Technology Editor
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