https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/18/how-the-wheels-came-off-facebook-libra-project > Support for Mark Zuckerberg mission to reshape global finance is slipping away slowly but surely > When Facebook announced plans to launch a digital currency earlier this summer, it added a full-blown revolution in global finance to its typically-vaulting Silicon Valley mission statement: to create a digital currency alongside its efforts to bring the world closer together through networks.