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Felix Capital, the London VC firm that has built a portfolio emphasizing investments in startups in the ecosystem that supports the creative class, is bringing on two more partners, Julien Codorniou and Susan Lin, as it continues to expand into a wider range of categories.Codorniou had been a...

Ashley Stewart / Insider: Internal documents: Meta will prioritize selling products directly on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger in 2022, partially in response to Apple's ATT changes — - Meta is pivoting to focus on selling more products directly on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger...

Martin Anderson / Unite.AI: Study: AI research regularly reuses a small number of ML datasets by a few institutions like Stanford, Microsoft, Princeton, Meta, Google, Max Planck, and AT&T — A new paper from the University of California and Google Research has found that a small number of...

Financial Times: Researchers describe Meta's roadblocks, including pre-publication review and restrictive contracts, to stifle research that might cast it in a negative light — Last March, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, a researcher at Princeton University, applied to use a special data access...

Alistair Gray / Financial Times: GroupM: global ad revenue will reach $763B in 2021, up 18.7% from 2019; Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon control 80-90% of the digital ad market outside China — Alphabet, Meta and Amazon have doubled their share of ad revenues in past 5 years, industry estimates

David Thiel / Wired: Before implementing e2ee, Meta must improve its existing content-oblivious harm-reduction mechanisms, limit recommendation engines and discoverability, and more — The company's decision to delay the rollout makes sense—because its initial plan never did.

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta says it is testing a Split Payments feature for Messenger in the US that lets users share the cost of bills and expenses — Facebook Messenger announced today that it's starting to test out a new “Split Payments” feature that introduces a way for users to share...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta's NPE team recently set up an office in Lagos and plans another in Asia as it changes strategy to include making seed investments in small teams — Meta's (formerly, Facebook's) experimental app division, the NPE team, is shifting gears. The group, which first...

Meta’s (formerly, Facebook’s) experimental app division, the NPE team, is shifting gears. The group, which first launched in mid-2019, has been focused on building consumer-facing apps that would allow the company to test out new social features and gauge people’s reactions.Over the years, the...

Olivia Solon / NBC News: Meta partners with UK-based Revenge Porn Helpline to help people prevent intimate images from appearing online by uploading them to StopNCII.org — Facebook's parent company, Meta, has worked with the U.K.-based nonprofit Revenge Porn Helpline to build a tool that lets...

CNBC: Meta expands the number of eligible regulatory licenses for running crypto ads on Facebook and Instagram from three to 27 — - Facebook on Wednesday announced its decision to reverse long-standing policy that prevented most cryptocurrency companies from running ads on its services.

James Clayton / BBC: Meta will no longer block searches and remove praise of Kyle Rittenhouse on Facebook and Instagram, after designating him a shooter in a “mass murder” in 2020 — Facebook has reversed a decision to block searches on its platform for a US teenager who was acquitted of...

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: In its end-of-year threat report, Meta says it took down several global disinformation networks, including anti-vaccine groups and groups linked to state actors — The takedowns described in the company's latest threat report demonstrate how the...

Marty Swant / Forbes: The Facebook Papers offer glimpses into how users perceive Meta's ad products, like the impact of its reaction emojis, and the concerns raised by employees — The “Facebook Papers” have been revelatory when it comes to how the company formerly known as Facebook deals with...

Meta (formerly Facebook) recently announced its plans to delay the rollout of end-to-end encryption across its messaging service until sometime in 2023, citing concerns from child safety advocates who warned the change would shield abusers from detection. Today, the company offered more details...

Tom Krazit / Protocol: Meta selects AWS as its “long-term strategic cloud provider”, a partnership that includes helping AWS customers run Pytorch framework — The company formerly known as Facebook built an impressive array of computing infrastructure over the last decade. Over the next 10...

Steven Levy / Wired: Q&A with Frances Haugen on becoming a whistleblower, leaving Facebook after moving to Puerto Rico due to health, Meta, plans to run simulated social networks — When the Wall Street Journal launched a series of explosive articles based on internal Facebook documents in...

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: David Marcus, the co-creator of Diem who spent the last few years building the Novi wallet, is leaving Meta at the end of 2021 to pursue other projects — Marcus, who joined the tech giant in 2014, has struggled to get the Diem currency off the ground — David Marcus...

Jon Porter / The Verge: UK's CMA says Meta must sell Giphy, after finding the deal could harm social media users, rival platforms by denying access to GIFs, and UK advertisers — After its investigation found it could harm competition — The UK's competition regulator has officially ruled that...

Financial Times: Sources: UK's CMA is expected to force Meta to sell recently-acquired Giphy, the first time the competition watchdog has reversed a Big Tech acquisition — Move would be the first time the competition watchdog has reversed a Big Tech acquisition — The UK competition regulator...