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PayPal Dumps GiveSendGo, the ‘Christian’ Crowdfunding Site Used By Proud Boys

This morning PayPal confirmed to Gizmodo that it has cut ties with GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding platform which hosts fundraisers for, among other causes, Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse and Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. Since a Trumpist mob descended on D.C. last week with pipe bombs, zip ties, and feces, ultimately storming the Capitol Building…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

A Pared-Down Version of Facebook’s Libra Project Could Launch as Soon as January

Facebook’s long-anticipated cryptocurrency venture, Libra, could go live as early as January, three people involved with the matter told Financial Times this week. But don’t get too excited just yet: Thanks to a torrent of federal scrutiny and many of its chief investors bailing on the project, its scope has been significantly scaled back. The…

Social Media Alyse Stanley

Feds Say Cash App, Venmo, and Other Payment Apps Being Used to Launder Stimulus Money

The U.S. Secret Service has some 700 pending investigations centering on Paycheck Protection Program and the Unemployment Insurance Relief fraud, CNBC reported on Wednesday, and a large number of them involve money laundering via Cash App, PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, and other payment apps. Some 80 defendants have been charged with trying to steal $240 million…

Tech News Tom McKay

Paypal Gets Into the GoFundMe Game

Framing the move as an effort to make giving easier during the rough holiday season ahead of us, PayPal announced on Thursday that it’s launching its own crowdfunding network for charitable giving. The Generosity Network allows PayPal users to create or donate to GoFundMe-style fundraising campaigns for people in need. Outside of being directly within…

Tech News Rhett Jones

PayPal Holds Payments to Magazine’s Staff After Publisher Mentioned Article on Iran in Notes [Updated]

What happens when PayPal, the Treasury Department, and a New York magazine walk into a bar together? Nothing good! Jacob Plitman, publisher and CEO of NYC-based magazine Jewish Currents, says that PayPal held paychecks for nine of the publication’s staff and contributors this week after he listed “January plus Iran piece” as the purpose of…

Tech News Tom McKay

PayPal to Shell Out a Whopping $4 Billion to Acquire Shopping Plugin Honey

PayPal has agreed to drop $4 billion to take over Honey Science Corporation, the creator of e-commerce browser plugin Honey, TechCrunch reported on Wednesday. Honey alerts online shoppers to potential deals like coupon codes on products they are viewing, as well as offers comparative pricing, sales alerts, and price history charts in the hopes of…

Tech News Tom McKay

I Hope PayPal’s Dick Falls Off

PayPal wages its years-long war on sex work, announcing yesterday that it has officially refused to process payments made through Pornhub to over 100,000 models. The reason, as per usual, is violation of its “sexually-oriented goods” clause in the terms of service agreement. The cumulative effect of financial discrimination, by banks and payment processors, is…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Facebook’s Being Sued Over Look-A-Like Logo And…Well…

Looks like Libra’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week isn’t over yet. In addition to major backers like PayPal, eBay, Stripe, Visa, and Mastercard dropping support for Facebook’s cryptocurrency project, now its logo has become the center of a legal battle over alleged trademark infringement. The logo for Calibra, a subsidiary Facebook formed to…

Social Media Alyse Stanley

PayPal Drops Support for Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Scheme

A few days after the Wall Street Journal reported that a few corporate supporters of Facebook’s cryptocurrency were considering bowing out of its so-called “crypto mafia”, PayPal became the first to do so Friday, announcing that it will no longer participate in the Libra Association. “PayPal has made the decision to forgo further participation in…

Social Media Alyse Stanley

Websites Can Discriminate Against You Even If You Don’t Use Them, California Supreme Court Rules

Nearly four years ago, a lone bankruptcy lawyer sued Square, the payment processor run by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, challenging the app’s terms of use—despite never signing up. As of yesterday, the case will proceed, thanks to an opinion issued by the California Supreme Court that could have wide-reaching implications for online businesses. The first…

Tech Policy Avery Ellis

New York Times Publishes Anti-Google Rant, Doesn’t Mention the Author Is a Facebook Board Member [Updated]

The New York Times published an anti-Google screed by billionaire Peter Thiel last night but failed to mention a fun fact that readers might find relevant: Thiel sits on the board of Facebook, one of Google’s largest competitors. Thiel first blasted Google as “treasonous” last month, saying that the FBI and CIA should investigate the…

Tech News Matt Novak

Domino’s Tests Cashless Stores in Australia as the World Ditches Paper Money

Cash isn’t dead yet, but we’re getting close. Domino’s in Australia announced that it will trial cashless stores at five locations in the country starting today. Customers will be able to use credit cards, debit cards, ApplePay, Android Pay, PayPal, and Domino’s Instagift gift cards. But cash will no longer be an option for both…

Privacy & Security Matt Novak

Facebook Announces Libra, Digital Currency on the Blockchain That Doesn’t Actually Need to Be on the Blockchain

Facebook and 27 other partner companies formally announced this morning they plan to launch a digital currency called Libra in the first half of 2020. And if they pull it off, Libra could become the standard digital currency around the world. Facebook describes Libra as being “powered by blockchain,” though it’s not clear why the…

Social Media Matt Novak

Ex-PayPal Employee Fights to Have Her Gender Discrimination Dispute Heard In Court

A former PayPal employee filed a gender discrimination complaint against the company on Thursday, alleging that her supervisor passed her up for a promotion because the job would require international travel and she had young children at home. Instead, the complaint says, her male colleague with a small child was given the job. Theresa Pasinosky…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

PayPal, GoFundMe Yank Accounts for Far-Right Militia Rounding Up Migrants at Border

PayPal and GoFundMe have banned a far-right group, the United Constitutional Patriots (UCP), that was recently reported to be posing as law enforcement to round up migrant families at gunpoint at the U.S. border with Mexico before handing them over to Border Patrol officials, BuzzFeed News reported on Friday. The UCP, which the ACLU characterized…

Tech News Tom McKay

Don’t Leave a Negative Balance in Your Venmo Account (or Else)

Venmo, the PayPal-owned digital wallet perhaps best known as a way to exchange money with your drinking buddies, is apparently hounding users of delinquent accounts with threats of debt collection, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. According to the Journal, which obtained emails sent to Venmo users by the PayPal-owned service, accountholders with outstanding balances…

Tech News Catie Keck

Phishing Scam From Fake PayPal Account Was Promoted on Twitter

An account posing as PayPal used a paid promotion on Twitter to bait users into sharing their personal information under the guise that they were entering an end-of-year contest, The Next Web reported this week. TNW reporter Matthew Hughes first reported the since-deleted promoted tweet from @PaypalChristm, which he said populated in his timeline. The…

Tech News Catie Keck

PayPal: What If We Banned Both Sides

Payment processing giant PayPal terminated accounts belonging to the far-right Proud Boys organization and its founder, Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, this week in what seemed to be a response to their involvement in a street brawl in New York and well-documented history of violence elsewhere. But it also banned a number of anti-fascist groups…

Tech News Tom McKay

Far-Right Site Gab Ditched by Cloud Host Joyent, Suspended by Stripe Amid Synagogue Massacre [Update: GoDaddy Yanks Domain]

Gab, the self-declared free speech platform that has welcomed countless neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and various other far-right bigots, had its PayPal accounts terminated on Saturday after authorities named anti-Semite and alleged Gab user Robert Bowers as the suspect in a massacre of at least 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday. The…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Stripe Freezes Gab’s Account for NSFW Content, Shining a Light on a Problematic Policy

Social network Gab, a haven for toxic alt-right personalities banned from more mainstream platforms, has had its Stripe account frozen due to adult content on the platform. But even if you cheer Gab’s problems, Stripe is no hero. Stripe, according to Gab, told the social network that it must modify its terms of service “to…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

PayPal Dumps GiveSendGo, the ‘Christian’ Crowdfunding Site Used By Proud Boys

A Pared-Down Version of Facebook’s Libra Project Could Launch as Soon as January

Feds Say Cash App, Venmo, and Other Payment Apps Being Used to Launder Stimulus Money

Paypal Gets Into the GoFundMe Game

PayPal Holds Payments to Magazine’s Staff After Publisher Mentioned Article on Iran in Notes [Updated]

PayPal to Shell Out a Whopping $4 Billion to Acquire Shopping Plugin Honey

I Hope PayPal’s Dick Falls Off

Facebook’s Being Sued Over Look-A-Like Logo And…Well…

PayPal Drops Support for Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Scheme

Websites Can Discriminate Against You Even If You Don’t Use Them, California Supreme Court Rules

New York Times Publishes Anti-Google Rant, Doesn’t Mention the Author Is a Facebook Board Member [Updated]

Domino’s Tests Cashless Stores in Australia as the World Ditches Paper Money

Facebook Announces Libra, Digital Currency on the Blockchain That Doesn’t Actually Need to Be on the Blockchain

Ex-PayPal Employee Fights to Have Her Gender Discrimination Dispute Heard In Court

PayPal, GoFundMe Yank Accounts for Far-Right Militia Rounding Up Migrants at Border

Don’t Leave a Negative Balance in Your Venmo Account (or Else)

Phishing Scam From Fake PayPal Account Was Promoted on Twitter

PayPal: What If We Banned Both Sides

Far-Right Site Gab Ditched by Cloud Host Joyent, Suspended by Stripe Amid Synagogue Massacre [Update: GoDaddy Yanks Domain]

Stripe Freezes Gab’s Account for NSFW Content, Shining a Light on a Problematic Policy

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