Real fake news: Libra spawns fakes, including on Facebook too!

A barrelful of phonies offering or repping Facebook’s Libra currency appeared right onto Facebook’s own platforms,. Talk about fighting to reestablish trust and protect against any fraudsters likely to surround the Libra financial system.

A dozen ror more fake accounts, pages and groups scattered across Facebook and its giant Instagram introduce themselves as official hubs for the digital currency. The spread of knockoffs — and Facebook’s inability to detect them on its own — could undermine Facebook-backed efforts to inspire confidence and satisfy the regulators now scrutinizing the newly proposed global currency. Many of the fakes included Facebook’s logo, photos of Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, Sandberg or Libra’s own logo..