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An action group pressuring payment entities to block funds destined for white supremacists has successfully lobbied PayPal and is going after Visa and MasterCard.

SumOfUs, which describes itself as a “corporate watchdog organization,” this week launched a petition campaign to bring attention to the practice.

“This week, over 70,000 members of SumOfUs stood up against corporate greed to stop PayPal and French and Austrian Banks from helping a violent white supremacist group in Europe use their service to raise money to sabotage rescue boats saving refugees in the Mediterranean—and won,” Senior Campaign Manager Eoin Dubsky said in a press release yesterday.
Read more: https://cointelegraph.com/news/visa-mastercard-paypal-under-pressure-to-halt-extremist-funding

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