{"id":9212,"date":"2021-07-27T08:43:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=9212"},"modified":"2021-07-28T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:56:05","slug":"paypal-to-investigate-transactions-that-fund-extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/paypal-to-investigate-transactions-that-fund-extremists\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal To Investigate Transactions That Fund Extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PayPal Holdings is working with the non-profit Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to investigate how extremist and hate groups in the U.S. use financial platforms to fund their activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative, led by the ADL Centre for Extremism, will focus on detecting and disrupting the financial flows that support white supremacists and other anti-government organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will also address networks that are spreading and profiting from anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, anti-immigrant, anti-Black, anti-Hispanic and anti-Asian bigotry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The information collected in the course of the subsequent investigation will be shared with other financial industry companies, law enforcement agencies and policymakers, PayPal said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, PayPal worked with criminologists and academics to explore the payment channels used in the illicit firearms trade and has partnerships with the non-profit group Polaris to eradicate human trafficking through a joint Financial Intelligence Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, PayPal has also cracked down on companies that focused on extremism and tried to use its payment channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PayPal and ADL will also work with other civil rights organizations such as the League of United Latin American Citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-paypal-adl\/paypal-to-research-transactions-that-fund-hate-groups-extremists-idUSKBN2EW1HM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPa is working with the non-profit Anti-Defamation League to investigate how extremist and hate groups in the U.S. use financial platforms to fund their activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-9212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-paypal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9244,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions\/9244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}