{"id":"tp-2924","type":"article-newspaper","title":"Facebook makes new hires to lobby for its cryptocurrency ‘Libra’","author":"Shampa Mani","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/people/2924","datePublished":"2019-08-06T07:35:07.000Z","dateModified":"2019-08-06T07:35:07.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"Social networking giant Facebook has appointed a former aide to the chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee to lobby for Libra, its cryptocurrency project announced in June, Politico reported.","section":"People","references":[{"title":"Politico","url":"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2019/08/05/facebook-hires-zook-to-lobby-on-libra-706493"},{"title":"U.S. lawmakers","url":"https://tokenpost.com/Libra-Congressional-Hearing-US-lawmakers-ask-if-Libra-is-ETF-willingness-to-launch-pilot-program-and-more-2688"},{"title":"Senate Banking Committee","url":"https://tokenpost.com/Libra-would-not-launch-until-regulatory-concerns-are-full-addressed-says-Facebooks-David-Marcus-2670"},{"title":"saying","url":"https://tokenpost.com/Facebooks-cryptocurrency-Libra-may-never-happen-network-admits-in-SEC-filing-2847"},{"title":"TokenPost","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com"}]}