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Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft lay off thousands — but tech jobs are still hot in 2023, Indeed finds

Job opportunities are abundant in the broader ecosystem of technology jobs, despite woes at the traditional tech giants, according to Indeed.

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Big Tech Binged on Workers During Covid. Now, the Purge.

The spate of layoffs is a reaction to a hiring wave during the pandemic that got out of hand. But will it be an overreaction?

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Trump and Facebook Are Frenemies Who Can’t Let Go

Allowing the former president back on the social platform would be risky, but both sides could use the revenue.

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Activist Investors Move on Salesforce. Is Big Tech Safe?

Elliott may make companies tremble but the sector’s top players are cash-generating machines and have little to fear for now.

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Trump and Facebook Are Frenemies Who Can’t Let Go

Allowing the former president back on the social platform would be risky, but both sides could use the revenue.

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'Zuck Bucks 2.0': Zuckerberg-funded group pushing millions to influence local election offices, report says

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is continuing an effort to invest millions of dollars to influence the way local election offices function, according to a new report.

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Meta sues Voyager Labs, saying it created fake accounts to scrape user data

Meta alleged that Voyager Labs was improperly creating fake accounts and scaping user data.

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EXPLAINER: What is the metaverse and how will it work?

The term “metaverse” is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry’s imagination.

Meta fined more than $400 million by Irish regulator over EU privacy breaches

The Irish Data Protection Commission fined Meta over $400 million Wednesday after finding its Facebook and Instagram services breached EU privacy rules.

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Made-in-China labels become a problem for Meta’s anti-China stance

Company officials have discussed in recent months different strategies to avoid having a “Made in China” label, to avoid political blowback as well as tariffs.

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Metaverse off to ominous start after VR headset sales shrank in 2022

Meta is betting big on virtual reality as an anchor technology for its metaverse, but VR isn't catching on yet within the mainstream.

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Big Tech Will Get Back to Real Tech in 2023

Gut wrenching cutbacks will refocus the tech industry on things that go bleep-bleep. Plus a selection of the columnist’s best work in 2022.

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These tech moguls lost a combined $433 billion this year

It's been a dreary year for tech stocks — and for entrepreneurs' wealth.

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Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case

Facebook’s corporate parent has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica.

From Twitter chaos to TikTok bans to the metaverse, social media had a rocky 2022

From Facebook's troubled pivot to the metaverse to Twitter's management chaos to industry-wide layoffs, social media companies have had a rocky 2022

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg snubs fitness as key to metaverse growth

Zuckerberg defended Meta’s reliance on acquisitions to build out virtual and augmented reality services.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes witness stand in FTC case

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook parent company Meta, is on the witness stand in a California courtroom as part of the U.S. antitrust regulators' effort to stop the tech giant from buying a virtual reality startup.

Twitter chief Elon Musk has a lot of terrible ideas. This might be the worst of them

What’s more consequential than Musk’s mismanagement of his platform is his reinvigoration of one of Silicon Valley’s stupidest notions. | Opinion

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Frustrated virtual reality pioneer leaves Facebook's parent

A prominent video game creator who helped lead Facebook’s expansion into virtual reality has resigned from the social networking service’s corporate parent after becoming disillusioned with the way the technology is being managed.

FTC didn't stop Facebook-Instagram. How about Meta-Within?

Facebook parent Meta is sparring with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over its pending acquisition of virtual reality fitness company Within Unlimited in federal court in San Jose, California.

Republicans ramp up investigation into Twitter, Facebook on collusion with Biden admin to censor speech

Republicans say the Biden administration colluded with Twitter and Facebook under the “guise” of suppressing “misinformation” in order to censor Americans.

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Apology Is as Hollow as His Empire

The downfall of FTX isn’t just about a frothy market coming undone. It looks more like the combination of a financial bubble and murky accounting with a dash of charisma thrown in.

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FTC challenges Meta acquisition of VR company in court

Federal regulators opened their campaign to block Facebook parent Meta’s acquisition of a virtual-reality company in a San Jose, California, courtroom.

Cramer talks about some hot industrial stocks, and how we're playing Wall Street's pivot from tech

Let's take a serious break from the software companies that were claimed to be the best bets and start discussing the real market winners.

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Elon Musk's 'Twitter Files' increase suspicion Dems have 'deputized' Big Tech to police speech, warns Bongino

Fox News' Dan Bongino reacts to Elon Musk revealing internal Twitter communications about the social media platform's decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.

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Tech layoffs may not be a bad omen for U.S. economy at large

Tech firms like Meta, Amazon and Twitter have announced thousands of job cuts. So far, the trend seems to be isolated.

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Nonprofits strain to support voters in Georgia Senate race

Nonprofit organizations in Georgia are digging deep to ramp up their operations again after Election Day to inform voters about the closely watched runoff race for one of the state's Senate seats.

Mark Zuckerberg says Apple's App Store policies are not 'sustainable or good place to be'

At the DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke critically of Apple's App Store policies.

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Meta's VR gamble: How do holiday headset prices compare?

Meta said earlier this month that it would shift resources to the metaverse, firing thousands of employees. Is its virtual reality headset worth the price?

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Fight Poverty, Not Income Inequality

The difference in wealth between the rich and the poor has been shrinking, but that’s not necessarily good news.

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Tech's reality check: How the industry lost $7.4 trillion in one year

A bruising year for technology has left investors and workers gasping for breath and wondering when the layoffs will end and IPOs will come back.

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Big Tech Investors Are Done With ‘Science Projects’

Moonshots like self-driving cars that burned cash without generating much revenue have lost their allure in a time of inflation and belt-tightening.

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Facebook still banning Trump — for now — despite campaign

Donald Trump's suspension from Facebook and Instagram will stand for now despite his candidacy for president.

It's the end of the boom times in tech, as layoffs keep mounting

Amazon will reportedly lay off 10,000 employees as soon as this week. That follows job cuts at Meta, Twitter, and Stripe, with CEOs citing economic uncertainty and a slowdown in online ad buying.

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From Elon Musk to Sam Bankman-Fried, a bad week for market geniuses

Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried may be geniuses, but once again the governance risks of talented founders and CEOs left unchecked have been laid bare.

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Apology Is as Hollow as His Empire

The downfall of FTX isn’t just about a frothy market coming undone. It looks more like the combination of a financial bubble and murky accounting with a dash of charisma thrown in.

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What Is the Metaverse, and Will It Be Worth the Wait?

Imagine a three-dimensional online world where you teleport from your London office to a meeting room in Singapore, shop at a digital replica of your favorite clothing store then join a friend for a round of virtual golf. To some, this aspirational version of the internet known as the metaverse is the future of human interaction. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg changed the company’s name to Meta Platforms Inc. and is pouring billions of dollars a year into efforts to dominate this “next frontie

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‘I Got This Wrong’ Wasn’t the Apology We Needed From Big Tech

As they slashed thousands of jobs, founders of Facebook, Twitter and Stripe expressed regret for excessive optimism. But that wasn’t the real problem.

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Facebook thought pandemic online shopping would last forever. It didn’t.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said 11,000 workers lost their jobs in part because he overestimated the staying power of the e-commerce boom.

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Leaked video: Mark Zuckerberg addresses Meta employees after mass layoff

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed employees Wednesday afternoon, hours after the company announced it is laying off 13% of its staff, more than 11,000 people.

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Meta adds to a brutal year of layoffs in tech

Tech companies have been slashing jobs in 2022. Here's a roundup of the biggest layoffs so far this year.

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Cramer: Meta layoffs show Mark Zuckerberg 'got religion' on costs, but he must cut more

As painful as job cuts are, we think the move was necessary after the Facebook-parent delivered dismal results last month.

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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Disney, Meta Platforms, Lucid Motors, Roblox and more

These are the stocks posting the largest moves in midday trading.

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Facebook Parent Company Meta Cuts 11,000 Jobs, 13% Of Workforce

Meta, like other social media companies, has seen revenue growth begin to falter from pandemic highs.

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Mark Zuckerberg apologized for over-investing in Meta as he announced more than 11,000 staff would be laid off: 'I got this wrong'

Zuckerberg said Meta had incorrectly assumed that a pandemic revenue surge would be "permanent," and invested too heavily.

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Facebook owner Meta cuts 11,000 jobs—13% of workforce

"I got this wrong," admits CEO Mark Zuckerberg as his company grapples with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes.

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Facebook parent company Meta laying off 11,000 employees — about 13% of its workforce

Facebook parent Meta is laying off 11,000 people, about 13% of its workforce, as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to employees Wednesday.

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Facebook parent company Meta laying off 13% of employees

Facebook parent Meta is laying off 11,000 people, about 13% of its workforce, as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to employees Wednesday.

Facebook parent company Meta sheds 11,000 jobs in latest sign of tech slowdown

The layoffs represent the first large-scale workforce reduction in the company's 18-year history.

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Facebook parent Meta cuts 11,000 jobs, 13% of workforce

Facebook parent Meta is laying off 13% of its employees as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes.

Facebook parent begins mass layoffs as tech industry slashes jobs

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, announced more than 11,000 layoffs as the company seeks to cut back on expenses and transform its business model.

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Meta laying off more than 11,000 employees

Meta is laying off 13% of its staff, or more than 11,000 employees, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Wednesday.

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Big Tech Layoffs Deflate Musk and Zuckerberg

Twitter and Facebook can’t afford their billionaire bosses’ obsessions in a new age of austerity.

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TUCKER CARLSON: Democrats know they're about to get crushed

Fox News host Tucker Carlson weighs in on how Democrats and Republicans may perform in the 2022 midterm elections on Monday's "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

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Musk's partisan tweets call Twitter neutrality into question

Elon Musk used his Twitter megaphone to appeal to “independent-minded voters” on Monday, urging them to vote Republican in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections, stepping into the country’s political debate that tech company executives have for years worked to stay out of so their platforms wouldn’t be seen as favoring one side over the other.

Billionaire Barry Diller said there is something 'quite odd' in Mark Zuckerberg's decision to turn Facebook into Meta

Barry Diller said Mark Zuckerberg is chasing something that "doesn't yet exist" and questioned why he doesn't pay attention to his "basic business."

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Meta expected to lay off thousands in broader tech slowdown

The job cuts would add to the string of workforce reductions at such companies as Lyft, Stripe and Twitter — which slashed half its staff last week.

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Meta shares up on report it's set to begin mass layoffs

The layoffs could impact thousands of employees, according to The Wall Street Journal.

cnbc.com

Meta could begin large-scale layoffs this week, report says

An avatar of Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., speaks during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Facebook parent Meta could begin large-scale layoffs as soon as Wednesday, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The layoffs are expected to impact thousands of employees, the report said, and the move would mark the first major headcount reduction in Meta's history. A Meta spokesperson declined to comment and referred CNBC to Zuckerberg's comments on the company's latest earnings call last month. In aggregate, we expect to end 2023 as either roughly the same size, or even a slightly smaller organization than we are today."

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House Republicans Release Extensive Report Detailing FBI Politicization

House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee released a 1,000-page report on Friday outlining how the FBI and Justice Department have abandoned their commitment to political neutrality in recent years.

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Giving Mark Zuckerberg Unquestioned Power Was Asking for Trouble

Like absolute power, handing out super-voting shares can end badly

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Social media platforms brace for midterm elections mayhem

Social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok and Twitter say they're taking steps to prevent the spread of misinformation about voting and elections ahead of next month's midterms.

Meta hits back in fight with FTC over VR company acquisition

Facebook parent Meta struck back in its legal battle with federal regulators over its proposed acquisition of virtual-reality company Within Unlimited and its fitness app Supernatural.

Why Meta's virtual-reality avatars are finally getting legs

Why is it so hard to build a metaverse avatar — a visual representation of ourselves in the digital world — that walks on two legs.

Facebook owner Meta unveils $1,500 VR headset: Will it sell?

Facebook parent Meta has unveiled a high-end virtual reality headset with the hope people will soon be using it to work in the virtual reality of the still-elusive place called the metaverse.

Star witness testifies at California sheriff's civil trial

A former manager for a Silicon Valley security business that worked with Facebook has testified at a sheriff’s civil corruption trial that he and the company’s CEO agreed to provide political donations in exchange for concealed-weapons permits.

UFC mysteriously closes show at Vegas campus to fans, media

The UFC is holding its next fight show without fans or media members in attendance, and the mixed martial arts promotion isn’t saying why.

Officials probing whether Northeastern explosion was staged

Law enforcement officials says authorities are examining whether the employee who reported an explosion at Northeastern University may have lied to investigators and staged the incident.

Facebook parent settles suit in Cambridge Analytica scandal

Facebook’s corporate parent has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social network service allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016.

Amazon testing TikTok-style feed on its app, AI firm says

Amazon appears to be getting the TikTok bug, joining other companies seeking to hold consumers’ attention by introducing replicas of the popular social platform.

Meta mum on election misinformation efforts as midterms loom

Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some safeguards designed to thwart voting misinformation or foreign interference in elections even as the U.S. midterms approach.

How much is Zuckerberg worth? Card collector could find out

When camp counselor Allie Tarantino was flipping through a magazine years ago, he came upon a familiar name: Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook ends funding for US news partnerships program

Meta Platforms says it will no longer pay U.S. news organizations to have their material appear in Facebook's News Tab as it reallocates resources in the economic downturn.

Facebook parent Meta posts first revenue decline in history

Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta posted its first revenue decline in history Thursday, dragged by a drop in ad spending as the economy falters — and as competition from rival TikTok intensifies.

FTC acts to block Meta from buying VR company, fitness app

Federal regulators have taken legal action to block Facebook parent Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg from acquiring virtual reality company Within Unlimited and its fitness app Supernatural.

Google's parent reports slowest quarterly growth in 2 years

Google’s revenue growth during the past quarter decelerated to its slowest pace in two years as advertisers reined in their spending amid fears of an economic recession.

Facebook gives users new way to see all their friends' posts

Facebook is rolling out an update that enables its 2 billion daily users to more easily view their friends’ posts in chronological order.

Sheryl Sandberg, longtime No. 2 exec at Facebook, steps down

Sheryl Sandberg, the No. 2 executive at Facebook owner Meta, who helped turn its business from startup to digital advertising empire while also taking blame for some of its biggest missteps along the way, is stepping down.

Social media hammered by mounting questions over advertising

Social media has had a rough 2022 with lingering questions about advertising spending and a $44 billion takeover of Twitter that may or may not be happening, depending on which Elon Musk tweet you read.

DC sues Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica privacy breach

The District of Columbia has sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg.

Boards for Meta, Twitter face backlash from NY pension fund

A major New York pension fund that has invested in both Facebook’s corporate parent and Twitter believes it’s time to shake up the companies’ boards of directors because of their inability to keep violent content off their influential social media services.

WhatsApp adds messaging tools to attract businesses

WhatsApp parent Meta is moving forward with its push to attract businesses to its popular chat app.

Elon Musk asked to testify on Twitter by UK Parliament

A British parliamentary committee scrutinizing draft online safety legislation has invited Elon Musk to discuss his plans to buy Twitter and the changes he’s proposing for the social media platform.

Nonprofits likely under fire as Senate explores ‘dark money’

A Senate hearing on Wednesday is likely to produce fireworks as Republicans and Democrats square off over the role that foundations and nonprofits are playing in elections.

Zuckerberg money won't be in next round of aid for elections

The nonprofit that distributed most of the $350 million in donations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to election offices in 2020 says it won’t disburse similar donations this year.

Mississippi joins states limiting outside election funding

Mississippi is the latest Republican-led state to ban election offices from accepting donations from private groups for voting operations.

Georgia senators scrap proposal for more election rules

Georgia senators are scrapping further big changes in state election law.

'Kill more': Facebook fails to detect hate against Rohingya

A new report has found that Facebook failed to detect blatant hate speech and calls to violence against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority in advertisements submitted to run on its platform.

Did Amazon violate federal laws? Lawmakers ask for DOJ probe

Lawmakers have made good on their threat to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon, asking the Justice Department to investigate whether Amazon and its senior executives obstructed Congress or violated other laws in testimony on its competition practices.

Gates, French Gates top list of biggest U.S. charity donors

A handful of Americans donated at least $1 billion to charity last year, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual ranking of the 50 Americans who gave the most to charity in 2021.

EXPLAINER: How China got blue skies in time for Olympics

The clear skies greeting Olympic athletes in Beijing this month is a stark change from just a decade ago when the city’s notorious air pollution often made it difficult to make out nearby buildings.

Peter Thiel leaving board of Facebook parent Meta

A Silicon Valley billionaire and advisor to former President Donald Trump is leaving the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta.

Meta, formerly Facebook, faces historic drop as stock tanks

Meta is putting a lot of virtual eggs — and billions of dollars — into the metaverse basket, and Wall Street is spooked.

Shares of Facebook parent Meta plunge 23% on lower profits

Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, saw its stock plunge in after-hours trading after reporting a rare decline in its fourth quarter profit due to a sharp increase in expenses.

The end: Facebook-backed digital currency Diem sold to bank

A once-ambitious but now faltering Facebook-backed digital currency project known as Diem is dead, its assets sold to bank holding company Silvergate Capital.

Can’t find a movie to watch with your significant other? We found a simple solution

With Valentine’s Day approaching, are you planning a date at home with your loved one? Perhaps a movie night is in order.

Chan, Zuckerberg fighting Native American vaccine hesitancy

Dakota and Navajo actor Dallas Goldtooth joins other influencers — people who have earned the community’s trust — in a two-phase public outreach effort by nonprofit organizations IllumiNative, the Urban Indian Health Institute, and 13 Native groups in states including Alaska, Minnesota, and California.

Lawsuit: Google, Facebook CEOs colluded in online ad sales

Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales.

Markets 2021: Stocks soar, IPOs explode, crypto goes wild

Wall Street delivered another strong year in 2021, as a spike in consumer demand fueled by the reopening of the global economy pumped up corporate profits.

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has book deal

The former Facebook manager who startled the world this fall by leaking tens of thousands of internal documents and accusing her former employer of caring more about money than about public safety has a book deal.

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