{"id":573008,"date":"2021-06-24T14:51:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T18:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=573008"},"modified":"2021-06-24T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T18:51:19","slug":"fact-check-did-mcdonalds-send-a-tweet-saying-it-wouldnt-hire-people-who-have-traded-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-mcdonalds-send-a-tweet-saying-it-wouldnt-hire-people-who-have-traded-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did McDonald\u2019s Send A Tweet Saying It Wouldn\u2019t Hire People Who Have Traded Cryptocurrencies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Ffact-check-did-mcdonalds-send-a-tweet-saying-it-wouldnt-hire-people-who-have-traded-cryptocurrencies%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=573008&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233523896-scaled-e1624486411379.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jiaho\/posts\/10157897968826123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a tweet from McDonald\u2019s saying the company would not hire anyone who has held, traded or sold cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s did not send such a tweet. Nor has it instituted such a hiring policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are more than 38,000 McDonald\u2019s locations spread out over more than 100 countries, according to the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.mcdonalds.com\/corpmcd\/franchising-overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. An image on Facebook shows what appears to be a screen grab of a tweet sent from McDonald\u2019s verified Twitter account on May 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMcDonald\u2019s will not hire any individual that has held, traded or sold cryptocurrencies,\u201d the alleged tweet reads. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/05\/10\/fact-check-amazon-accept-dogecoin-payment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does Amazon Accept Dogecoin As Payment?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is, however, no record of McDonald\u2019s sending such a tweet. Check Your Fact searched McDonald\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=cryptocurrencies%20(from%3AMcDonalds)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter account,<\/a> but found no matching tweet. Archived <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210519014407\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/McDonalds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">screen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210519204441\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/McDonalds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grabs<\/a> of the account from May 19, the day the alleged tweet was sent, show no instances of the company saying it will not hire people who trade cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>A search of McDonald\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcdonalds.com\/us\/en-us\/search-results.html?q=cryptocurrency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> likewise showed no policy banning people who buy, sell or trade cryptocurrency. Had such a large company instituted this hiring policy, media outlets likely would have reported on it, yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=McDonalds+hiring+cryptocurrency&#038;oq=McDonalds+hiring+cryptocurrency&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j33i22i29i30.12576j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">none<\/a> have.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, <a href=\"https:\/\/nydig.com\/research-and-insights\/nydig-bitcoin-banking-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey<\/a> results released in January by the New York Digital Investment Group suggested at least 46 million Americans owned one or more shares of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. It seems unlikely a large company such as Mcdonald\u2019s would ban so many people from working at its restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the tweet, McDonald\u2019s responded in an email, \u201cthis is a fake post and not published from an official McDonald\u2019s account.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a tweet from McDonald\u2019s saying the company would not hire anyone who has held, traded or sold cryptocurrency.Verdict: False McDonald\u2019s did not send &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281245,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233523896-scaled-e1624486411379.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did McDonald\u2019s Send A Tweet Saying It Wouldn\u2019t Hire People Who Have Traded Cryptocurrencies?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233523896-scaled-e1624486411379.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did McDonald\u2019s Send A Tweet Saying It Wouldn\u2019t Hire People Who Have Traded Cryptocurrencies?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573008","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=573008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}