Tweets, false information, cryptocurrency and an “anti-system” president.
The episode mixes ingredients of our time.
On Monday, the president of El Salvador, this small Central American country, the only one to date to have recognized bitcoin as a legal currency, sharply attacked the financial rating agency Moody's on Twitter.
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Nayib Bukele reacted to the degradation of El Salvador by the financial agency Moody's.
The young head of state, using an English acronym that makes Emmanuel Macron's
"annoyance" look
like kindness, tweeted that he didn't care.
Incidentally, Moody's has not recently downgraded El Salvador's rating;
a financial news site claimed it by mistake.
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On the other hand, a Moody's analyst did tell Bloomberg last week that the Salvadorian state's purchase of a bitcoin reserve was weakening its financial situation.
The financial agency had certainly downgraded El Salvador, but in July, giving it the rating…
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