{"id":1700685,"date":"2022-10-18T06:09:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700685"},"modified":"2022-10-18T06:18:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:18:15","slug":"paypals-scheme-to-steal-from-users-spreading-misinfo-tied-to-chinese-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paypals-scheme-to-steal-from-users-spreading-misinfo-tied-to-chinese-contractor\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal&#8217;s Scheme to Steal From Users Spreading &#8220;Misinfo&#8221; Tied to Chinese Contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpaypals-scheme-to-steal-from-users-spreading-misinfo-tied-to-chinese-contractor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700685&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A PayPal worker based in China was the apparent author of a since-rescinded legal document that said the company could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-paypal-policy-lets-company-pull-2500-from-users-accounts-if-they-promote-misinformation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deduct thousands of dollars<\/a> directly from people\u2019s accounts if it deemed that they engaged in \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Metadata on the PDF file outlining PayPal\u2019s Acceptable Use Policy, which outlines a scenario more fitting for the Communist foreign nation, says it was created using Microsoft Word by a contractor in China.<\/p>\n<p>The contractor\u2019s profile on an internal PayPal directory, a screenshot of which was reviewed by The Daily Wire, describes them as an \u201coutsourced vendor\u201d based in Beijing. It said the contractor has been with the company since September 2020, and has no profile photo.<\/p>\n<p>PayPal did not respond to questions from The Daily Wire about the origins of the document.<\/p>\n<p>The metadata for the \u201cacceptableuse-full-110322.pdf\u201d policy, which said it would go into effect on November 3, 2022 \u2014 days before the U.S. election \u2014 says it was created on September 21, leaving plenty of time for internal review before it was posted.<\/p>\n<p>It said it was expanding its \u201cexisting list of prohibited activities\u201d to include \u201cthe sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials\u201d that \u201cpromote misinformation\u201d or \u201cpresent a risk to user safety or wellbeing.\u201d Users are also barred from \u201cthe promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory.\u201d It said violations of the policy could result in the removal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-paypal-policy-lets-company-pull-2500-from-users-accounts-if-they-promote-misinformation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$2,500 per offense<\/a> \u201cdebited directly from your PayPal account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201cwellbeing\u201d left to be defined by PayPal, the policy appeared to raise the specter of the seizure of assets of those with political opinions different than the company\u2019s. The company recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gay-rights-organization-gets-deplatformed-by-paypal-while-pro-pedophile-group-remains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sanctioned<\/a> groups including Gays Against Groomers, which opposes the sexualization of children. Former PayPal President David Marcus said the policy update \u201cgoes against everything I believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After news of the policy broke, outrage ensued and the company\u2019s stock price plunged, reducing its market cap by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-paypal-stock-plummets-after-daily-wire-report-exposes-shocking-misinformation-policy\">$6 billion<\/a> as users feared that entrusting PayPal with their money could lead to it being seized at any time for having opinions that differed from those of the Silicon Valley monolith.<\/p>\n<p>The company claimed October 8 that publishing the policy was an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/paypal-reverses-plan-to-fine-users-2500-for-misinformation-after-daily-wire-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accident<\/a>, ironically claiming its own policy contained misinformation. \u201cAn [Accepted Use Policy] notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information,\u201d a PayPal spokesperson said. \u201cPayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy. We\u2019re sorry for the confusion this has caused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It did not explain how an entire document full of specific legal language could have been drafted and posted to its corporate website if people in the company did not believe in the policy. The website reverted to a policy that says it is effective as of September 19, 2022. Metadata on that file says it was created by the contractor on August 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-u-s-government-developed-a-key-green-technology-the-biden-admin-gave-it-to-china\">The U.S. Government Developed A Key Green Technology. The Biden Admin Gave It To China.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PayPal worker based in China was the apparent author of a since-rescinded legal document that said the company could deduct thousands of dollars directly from people\u2019s accounts if it deemed that they engaged in \u201cmisinformation.\u201d Metadata on the PDF file outlining PayPal\u2019s Acceptable Use Policy, which outlines a scenario more fitting for the Communist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}