Submitted 1 week ago by CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Which is it?!
This headline came up in my news feed, from a very dubious source so I decided to investigate.
Headline after headline, many from identical sources, about how Walmart and Bank of America are either going to stop taking $1 bills or keep accepting them. The headlines read like a FUD article and I refuse to click through to read the details.
I can’t find a reputable news source for this story so I’m assuming it’s fake news.
It shouldn’t be this easy to manipulate news feeds.
Even without reading them I’m pretty sure that it goes like this:
I think step 2 might be done by AI now instead of humans, because AI can blindly copy articles faster.
Step 4 would be AI blindly copying the person with more than two braincells, whcih is why there are duplicates of both versions.
I thought they have to accept legal tender
Y’all worrying about a dollar while I’m over here waiting for chase to cash my 10mil check
bstix@feddit.dk 1 week ago
The actual story is that the bank will stop accepting or exchanging damaged bills.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
It’s one of the jobs of a bank though. They are supposed to exchange damaged bills and then exchange them with the mint, who then destroys them.
Honestly we need to get rid of the $1 bill generally but that’s a completely different post all together.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How we gonna get rid of the $1 bill? We can’t even get rid of the penny.
Vorticity@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What do you replace them with? Coins have been tried and rejected by consumers a few times now.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That would be communism!
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Their plan is to not do their job. Check.
tomatolung@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
The BEP can still accept them, but I’m curious if BofA is actually doing this and if it’ll stand up. More FAQ’s can be read here