When an explosive—and most likely fake—story about Joe Biden’s son began to circulate online this week, Facebook did something unusual: It decided to restrict its spread while it investigated the story’s accuracy. This marked the first prominent deployment of a…
Subscribe to The Ledger for expert weekly analysis on fintech’s big stories, delivered free to your inbox.Facebook’s ambitious plans to launch a global digital currency is about to hit another setback this week as financial leaders from the G7 move…
(Bloomberg) -- Tens of millions of dollars in options trades linked to the biggest American technology companies have again surfaced in U.S. markets, weeks after the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp. was linked to similar wagers.Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and…