Facebook bans cryptocurrency ads due to frequent fraud

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Those cryptocurrency ads that promise to make you rich in a matter of days? You won’t see them on Facebook any more.

The company added a new advertising policy Tuesday, prohibiting ads promoting “financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices, such as binary options, initial coin offerings, or cryptocurrency.”

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