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Meta debuts Verified in the US for $12/month on the web or $15/month on Android/iOS, with a blue badge, proactive impersonation protection, and customer support — Meta's paid verification program is available in the US starting today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Instagram channel.
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| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some lawmakers and tech executives like Peter Thiel are mobilizing against China's involvement in US tech, ahead of the TikTok CEO's US House testimony — Group to meet ahead of TikTok's testimony before Congress — A group of Silicon Valley executives, including investor Peter Thiel …
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| Hailey Fuchs / Politico: |
Source: TikTok is paying dozens of creators to visit DC next week and lobby lawmakers against a forced sale, ahead of CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony on March 23 — The influential social media app TikTok is flooding the nation's capital with influencers next week as part of an 11th hour lobbying blitz …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
YouTube lifts its restrictions on Donald Trump's channel, imposed after the January 6 insurrection, after evaluating the “continued risk of real-world violence” — YouTube will lift its restrictions on former President Trump's channel Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SVB Financial, the holding company for its securities and venture capital entities, files for Chapter 11 and “believes it has approximately $2.2B of liquidity” — One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank …
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Sources: Coinbase is exploring setting up a crypto trading platform overseas for institutional clients outside of the US, amid increased US scrutiny of crypto — Institutional clients of Coinbase Global Inc. have been contacted by the firm about plans to potentially set …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
After SVB froze its deposits, HR software startup Rippling raised a $500M Series E at an $11.25B valuation, same as Series D, taking its total funding to $1.2B — As a serial entrepreneur who has famously endured some ups and downs, Parker Conrad has nearly seen it all. Or so he might have thought until last week.
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Sources: Twitter explored licensing music rights from three major labels but negotiations stalled after Elon Musk's takeover and were abandoned due to costs — Twitter didn't move forward with the music licensing deals because of costs, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Around 20 investors and founders detail how some solo investors and small VC firms helped startups during the SVB crisis while many big VC firms disappointed — Covering venture capital, cloud and startups — When founders scrambled to make payroll after the closure of SVB …
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Q&A with two Meta security experts about the company's Online Operations Kill Chain, a framework for responding to threats like election influence operations — Next year will feature some of the most geopolitically significant elections of our times. Voters will be heading …
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| Andy Brown / NME: |
The FTC finalized a $245M fine for Epic Games on March 14 over tricking users into making unintended Fortnite purchases and bans Epic from using dark patterns — Epic Games faces over half a billion dollars in fines from the FTC — The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The FCC is requiring carriers to block SMS messages from “invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers”, targeting the increasing scam robotexts sent to consumers — First robotext rule requires blocking of texts from invalid and unused numbers. — The Federal Communications …
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