McDonald's India X Account Flip: When Corporate Social Media Becomes a Meme Coin Launchpad
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Trust is not a variable you can optimize away. Somewhere between a deleted meme about unpaid internships and a crypto wallet address dropped into the void of X, McDonald's India learned this the hard way. The incident—brief, viral, and now scrubbed—exposed something more systemic than a rogue social media manager: the growing intersection of corporate account security failures and the meme coin economy's hunger for legitimacy. Wall Street, meanwhile, shrugged. Twenty-four analysts still see 24% upside in MCD. But the real story isn't the stock. It's the blueprint.
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