LinkedIn Bans Cryptocurrency Advertising

LinkedIn Bans Cryptocurrency Advertising

More and more Internet companies are banning advertising of cryptocurrencies due to fears of damaging their reputation: Twitter, Google, Facebook and Snapchat - the number of companies adjacent to this chain continues to grow steadily.

Now the social network LinkedIn has announced its decision to introduce a ban on advertising of digital currencies and everything connected with them, writes The Independent, citing the company's press attache.

LinkedIn argues for its decision that such advertising misleads investors. The Independent focuses on the fact that the owner of the resource, Microsoft, has not made an official statement about the innovations and still allows advertising on other platforms.

Apparently, it won’t be long to wait - rumors about a ban on cryptocurrency advertising on Twitter were not rumors for long, because the company officially announced its decision a week after their appearance.

This state of affairs is absolutely not satisfactory for the crypto community, and if at first it did not react in any way to what they are trying to bind it to hands from all sides, their response was not long in coming.

It became known that the cryptocurrency associations of Korea, China and Russia are preparing to file a lawsuit against the Internet giants that banned advertising.

It is not yet known how representatives of the companies themselves reacted to this news, but judging by Apparently, this event has a chance to become the most discussed event of this spring. After all, the lawsuit is just being drawn up, and the news has already created a big stir in the press.


According to https://www.independent.co.uk

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