29 January 2021, 2:45 am EST By
Amid all the frenzy between independent investors rallying behind struggling companies like AMC, GameStop, and Blackberry and Wall Street investors, a popular Facebook trading discussion group had been shut down by the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company.
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The ban happened amid the ongoing stock frenzy.
Facebook Bans Trading Group
According to Reuters, the Facebook Wall Street discussion group called Robinhood Stock Traders were apparently shut down for violating the platform s policy.
The 23-year-old Chicago native creator of the group, Allen Tran, said that he woke up on Wednesday, January 27, with a notification from Facebook, saying that they had disabled the group, which had over 157,000 members.
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Contact named 'WhatsApp' left a message on the 'Status' tab of its users. However, despite the message amid flak for privacy, netizens were not convinced.
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Facing a huge backlash over the updated privacy policy, the American messaging freeware, Whatsapp has launched an aggressive advertisement campaign to allay the concerns. The company launched a full front page ad in the leading newspapers of India claiming that it respects and protects your privacy .
The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company contended in the ad, WhatsApp cannot see your private messages or hear your calls, and neither can Facebook: every private message, photo, video, voice message, and document you send your friends, family, and co-workers in one-on-one or group chats is protected by end-to-end encryption, it stays between you.