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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by TheKarateKid on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @01:58PM (#26005047)
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-faceboo...

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by h0l0cube on Sunday February 07, 2021 @01:52AM (#26053211)
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.
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