'Playing God with starving children': MasterCard slammed for donating meals when Messi or Neymar score

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'Playing God with starving children': MasterCard slammed for donating meals when Messi or Neymar score
Sat, 02 Jun, 2018 - 15:23
Stephen Barry

By Stephen Barry

Visa may have experienced a Europe-wide outage yesterday, but MasterCard haven't been far behind in the bad publicity stakes this week.

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