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    • Appeals court reverses a lower court and reinstates a suit challenging constitutionality of sex-trafficking law FOSTA, finding plaintiffs have standing to sue (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

    Electronic Frontier Foundation: Appeals court reverses a lower court and reinstates a suit challenging constitutionality of sex-trafficking law FOSTA, finding plaintiffs have standing to sue  —  Judges Found Plaintiffs Have Standing to Sue  —  SAN FRANCISCO-A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of FOSTA … Appeals court reverses a lower court and reinstates a suit challenging constitutionality

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    Study: 98% of kids in the UK can’t tell fake news from the truth

    {$inline_image}The 2019 general election is already being remembered as the one where misinformation went mainstream. It was, of course, already on the political agenda after the 2016 referendum and US election, with growing numbers of academics and parliament sounding the alarm over foreign actors using so-called “fake news” to disrupt the democratic processes. But what

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    • Unito, whose tool helps teams communicate between different workplace productivity software suites, raises $10.5M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)

    Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Unito, whose tool helps teams communicate between different workplace productivity software suites, raises $10.5M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners  —  Startup productivity tools have never been better, but that’s led to employees being more passionate than ever about the tools that they want to use themselves. Unito, whose tool

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    • Fintech company Wex to acquire B2B payments services providers eNett and Optal for $1.7B; both eNett and Optal work with major online travel agencies (Sean O'Neill/Skift)

    Sean O’Neill / Skift: Fintech company Wex to acquire B2B payments services providers eNett and Optal for $1.7B; both eNett and Optal work with major online travel agencies  —  With this deal, Wex now becomes a powerhouse in assisting business-to-business travel payments worldwide. Fintech company Wex to acquire B2B payments services providers eNett and Optal

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    • India-based Pine Labs, which offers POS services, raises an undisclosed round from Mastercard; source: the $100M-$150M round values the company at $1.5B-$1.6B (Times of India)

    Times of India: India-based Pine Labs, which offers POS services, raises an undisclosed round from Mastercard; source: the $100M-$150M round values the company at $1.5B-$1.6B  —  BENGALURU: Point-of-sales (PoS) services provider Pine Labs has raised a new round of funding from the global card network major Mastercard. India-based Pine Labs, which offers POS services, raises

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    • An overview of nine leading US presidential candidates' positions on Big Tech, with Warren and Sanders leading the charge to break up big tech companies (Elizabeth Culliford/Reuters)

    Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: An overview of nine leading US presidential candidates’ positions on Big Tech, with Warren and Sanders leading the charge to break up big tech companies  —  Republican President Donald Trump’s administration has also stepped up its scrutiny of Big Tech, conducting a wide-ranging probe … An overview of nine leading US

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    • Socially Determined, which offers a data analytics platform focused on measuring the impact of the social determinants of health, closes $11.1M Series A (Michelai Graham/Technical.ly DC)

    Michelai Graham / Technical.ly DC: Socially Determined, which offers a data analytics platform focused on measuring the impact of the social determinants of health, closes $11.1M Series A  —  Wharf-based healthcare analytics startup Socially Determined has closed on its Series A funding round, raising a total of $11.1 million. Socially Determined, which offers a data

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