Zuckerberg Links Up with Democratic Lawmakers Concerned About Libra Cryptocurrency

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a meeting on Wednesday with about six US lawmakers over a dinner in Washington, Washington Post reports. The dinner meeting primarily focused on Facebook’s Libra crypto project.

Intelligence Committee vice chair Senator Mark Warner was pivotal in organizing the dinner meeting with Zuckerberg at an undisclosed restaurant in Washington. According to Warner, the legislators explained their issues ranging from privacy, vile content and how the issues can be handled.

While the discussion was about various issues about Facebook, the lawmakers took a keen interest to ask specific questions about Facebook’s intended cryptocurrency, the Libra. The cryptocurrency has yielded lots of scrutiny from different quarters especially lawmakers and other policy makers in the world.

One of the key concerns from the lawmakers is the fact that Libra representatives had indicated that if the project failed to get approved in America, it will not be launched in another country. Warner raised concern that Facebook might have duped the lawmakers with such an assurance as there are indications that Libra may be launched in another country in the near future.

According to Warner, Zuckerberg must have understood the concerns of the lawmakers and as such, the lawmaker wonders whether Facebook would want to launch the Libra crypto before getting approved by the US authorities.

Another lawmaker present during the dinner, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, said that he was thrilled by the interest exhibited by Zuckerberg saying that the dinner meeting was constructive as the most pressing issues facing the larger tech space were canvassed and he was much interested in the measures taken by the company to safeguard privacy.

According to Cointelegraph, Zuckerberg is set to spend more days in Washington meeting with various policy makers to talk about internet regulatory on various issues like privacy, handling of rivalry as well as how to deal with election matters. These meetings comes just a few weeks after the intense grilling of the Libra cryptocurrency by the US Congress.

Libra has been facing increased challenges ahead of its official launch scheduled for next year. Earlier this month, French Finance Minister stated that his country will not allow the launching of Libra within the European Union. Additionally, German Finance Minister has claimed that Libra will create a parallel currency that might undermine sovereignty.