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Is there a source you can point to, or is it hearsay?

• catmanjan 6y ago
  I want to know this too, I'd love it to be true, very Hollywood
• TheKarateKid 6y ago
  From the NYT article [1]: >Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents. >Facebook executives outlined the company’s options to Mark Zuckerberg...: hire hundreds more engineers and spend billions of dollars to compete against Google; exit the business; or do the deal. It's one of many things FB and G did together. Even more are listed in the antitrust lawsuit against Google. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-facebook-ad-deal-antitrust.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-faceboo...
  • h0l0cube 6y ago
    It's not exactly what you were implying. The article seems to be talking purely about the ad auctions. That G+ was a bargaining chip might be a tantalizing speculation, but still speculation.