Activist Groups Are Urging 27 Libra Partners To Ditch The Project

Activist groups gathered around to write an open letter to more than 27 Libra partners in order to dump the Facebook venture and to give up on the project. As the bashing continues for Libra, we are reading more about what the groups want in the coming altcoin news below.

After the US President Donald Trump bashed the crypto project Libra, now the activist groups are urging the partners of the social media company to dump the project. They claim that Mark Zuckerberg cannot be trusted. The four groups wrote in the letter that they fear the social media monopoly and leadership. The group that signed the letter include the Open Markets Institute which is a think tank that opposes corporate monopolies, Public Citizen which is a left-wing consumer’s organization, Demand Progress Education Fund, and the Revolving Door Project.

The activist groups warned that Libra and Facebook cannot be trusted and they are trying to monopolize the expanding digital money industry. Rather than to use Libra as a financial service that will democratize the sector, the group says that Facebook is trying to fool the public into something very shady and make only a benefit for itself:

 “Facebook is eager to present itself as just one voice of many in the Libra Association. No one is fooled by this subterfuge. There’s a reason that Congressional committees are seeking answers from Facebook officials.”

The anti-Facebook activist groups suggest that the CEO of Facebook is lying when he says that he only wants to launch Libra to help the 1.7 billion people without access to traditional banking services. The groups say that the social media giant only wants to promote its dominance:

 “Achieving a laudable goal should not be cheapened with a project whose aims are in fact unclear and whose leadership structure is based on fear. We understand that Facebook is a powerful company and that it has in part generated a climate of fear with its market dominance. But if you collectively withdraw from the project, it will signal that the just-beginning era of digital money will be based on fair rules and democratic deliberation and not intimidation by the powerful.”

The libra project, as noted in the latest cryptocurrency news, is constantly under attack mainly because people believe it could be used to facilitate money laundering and drug trafficking.