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Michaella Huck / dot.LA:Omaze, a charity fundraising platform which offers celebrity meet-and-greets and other experiences, raises $85M Series C led by Moore Strategic Venture  —  Charity fundraising platform Omaze, which offers celebrity meet-and-greets…

Kenrick Cai / Forbes:Glean, an enterprise search engine startup cofounded by Google and Facebook veterans, emerges from stealth with $55M in funding across two rounds  —  When Arvind Jain left his cushy tech job to cofound cloud data management company…

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:Bigeye, whose data observability platform helps companies manage and improve data quality, raises $45M Series B led by Coatue, bringing its total raised to $66M  —  The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with…

Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review:Internal report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US Facebook users per month before the 2020 election; 75% of the users didn't follow any of the Pages  —  In the run up to the 2020 election, the most highly…

Financial Times:China is cracking down on pessimistic financial blogs and social media accounts, as well as fraudulent ones; analysts worry independent voices will be silenced  —  China has launched a crackdown on financial blogs and social media, a move…

Politico:DHS: American extremists used TikTok in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 riots to recruit new members and share “tactical guidance” for terrorist and criminal activity  —  Extremists foreign and domestic have used the video platform, DHS says.  The…

Bloomberg:Digital identity management firm ForgeRock closed up 46% in its NYSE debut for a market cap of ~$2.9B, after raising roughly $275M in its IPO  —  - Tech consulting, running shoes deliver 45% returns in listings  — ForgeRock CEO sees demand…

Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:How law enforcement's ability to track people via commercially available data blurs the line between investigative due diligence and warrantless surveillance  —  Agencies' growing use of purchased data without warrants…

Aaron Mak / Slate:Inside the r/aznidentity subreddit, an unofficial hub of “Men's Rights Asians” subculture, which has gained notoriety by harassing Asian women  —  They became notorious for trying to harass Asian women off the internet.  The racial…

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:London-based Tyk, which offers open source tools for businesses to manage APIs, raises $35M led by Scottish Equity Partners  —  APIs are the grease turning the gears and wheels for many organizations' IT systems today, but as…

Haroon Siddique / The Guardian:Sir Clive Sinclair, the creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum who helped popularize the home computer, dies at age 81  —  Creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness …

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents  —  - Facebook Instagram chief Adam Mosseri came under a flurry of…

Mitchell Clark / The Verge:Nate Chastain, OpenSea's head of product accused this week of a form of NFT insider trading, appears to no longer be working for the company  —  He's accused of buying NFTs before they appeared on the trading platform's…

Wall Street Journal:Internal docs show Facebook's weak response after staff flagged human traffickers and drug cartels using its platform for recruitment in developing countries  —  Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing…

Kevin Collier / NBC News:Researchers say they identified around 10,000 Telegram users claiming to sell fake vaccination cards, with sellers often asking for sensitive personal info  —  The online market for fake Covid-19 vaccination cards is booming. …