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Re:U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy by JulianMorrison on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @08:53AM (#29392075)
> Also what's so special about Giphy?

At a guess: a large existing library of GIFs.

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Re:U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy by nicce on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @08:58AM (#29392117)
This might be the real motivation. Facebook(Meta) is data hungry and data driven company. It cares about existing data and the potential for getting more data. Known platform has a high chance to provide more data.
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Re:U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy by JulianMorrison on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @09:09AM (#29392224)
https://media0.giphy.com/media/DwrnYsZCXspu8/giphy.gif?cid=7...
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