{"id":31717,"date":"2025-06-13T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31717"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:16:39","slug":"elizabeth-warren-slams-mark-zuckerberg-over-reported-stablecoin-ambitions-citing-national-security-threat-meta-says-no-such-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31717","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren Slams Mark Zuckerberg Over Reported Stablecoin Ambitions, Citing &#8216;National Security Threat&#8217; \u2014 Meta Says No Such Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen.\u00a0<strong>Elizabeth Warren<\/strong>\u00a0(D-Mass.) and Sen.\u00a0<strong>Richard Blumenthal<\/strong>\u00a0(D-Conn.) raised concerns over\u00a0<strong>Meta Platforms Inc.<\/strong>\u00a0(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/META#NASDAQ\">META<\/a>) CEO\u00a0<strong>Mark Zuckerberg<\/strong>\u2018s potential stablecoin revival plans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The Senators voiced their apprehensions\u00a0to Zuckerberg in a letter on Wednesday, saying that reports of Meta\u2019s pursuit of a stablecoin project raise \u201cserious concerns.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The senators are worried that if large tech companies control their own private currencies, it could threaten competition, erode financial privacy, and give\u00a0control of the U.S. money\u00a0supply to monopolistic platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Warren and Blumenthal\u00a0argued that if Meta controlled\u00a0its own stablecoin, it could\u00a0exploit vast amounts of consumer data for\u00a0\u201cintrusive\u201d targeted advertising, manipulate pricing, or\u00a0sell \u201csensitive private information\u201d to third parties.\u00a0They also warned that allowing Meta\u00a0to run a private currency\u00a0could pose serious money laundering,\u00a0consumer protection and national security\u00a0threats.<\/p>\n<p>The senators have\u00a0asked Zuckerberg to provide detailed\u00a0information about Meta\u2019s stablecoin ambitions, including details &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/06\/45923283\/elizabeth-warren-slams-mark-zuckerberg-over-reported-stablecoin-ambitions-citing-national-s\" alt=\"Elizabeth\" warren slams mark zuckerberg over reported stablecoin ambitions citing security threat meta says no such plans>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Elizabeth Warren\u00a0(D-Mass.) and Sen.\u00a0Richard Blumenthal\u00a0(D-Conn.) raised concerns over\u00a0Meta Platforms Inc.\u00a0(NASDAQ:META) CEO\u00a0Mark Zuckerberg\u2018s potential stablecoin revival plans. What Happened: The Senators voiced their apprehensions\u00a0to Zuckerberg in a letter on Wednesday, saying that reports of Meta\u2019s pursuit of a stablecoin project raise \u201cserious concerns.\u201d The senators are worried that if large tech companies control their own private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-31717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}