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Oregon-based Dutchie, an e-commerce platform for cannabis dispensaries, raised $200M Series C at a $1.7B valuation, up nearly eight times from last August (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:Oregon-based Dutchie, an e-commerce platform for cannabis dispensaries, raised $200M Series C at a $1.7B valuation, up nearly eight times from last August  —  Dutchie, a nearly four-year-old, Bend, Oregon company that charges cannabis dispensaries a monthly fee to create and run their websites …

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Facebook says it will publish an annual report detailing its impact on human rights and will establish a fund to support human rights activists and journalists (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:Facebook says it will publish an annual report detailing its impact on human rights and will establish a fund to support human rights activists and journalists  —  – Social media giant to give board formal updates on the issue  — Company has been criticized for role in Myanmar, Sri Lanka

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Squarespace raises $300M in a round valuing it at $10B, two months after it filed confidentially to go public via a direct listing or an IPO (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:Squarespace raises $300M in a round valuing it at $10B, two months after it filed confidentially to go public via a direct listing or an IPO  —  Squarespace has raised $300 million in a round of funding that values the company at a staggering $10 billion valuation.

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SEC charges a California trader for allegedly using misleading claims to promote penny stocks on Twitter to his ~13K followers and then selling his holdings (Charlie Osborne/ZDNet)

Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:SEC charges a California trader for allegedly using misleading claims to promote penny stocks on Twitter to his ~13K followers and then selling his holdings  —  The agency says social media was used in an alleged pump-and-dump scam.  —  The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) …

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Leaked audio from a February 8 meeting reveals Parler’s chief policy officer saying: “We are not going after misinformation in any way” (William Turton/Bloomberg)

William Turton / Bloomberg:Leaked audio from a February 8 meeting reveals Parler’s chief policy officer saying: “We are not going after misinformation in any way”  —  Leaked recordings of meetings detail role of Rebekah Mercer at social-media platform  —  Conservative donor Rebekah Mercer has been writing checks …

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A Florida teen who hacked well-known Twitter accounts last summer and used them to ask for BTC, netting $100K+ worth, was sentenced to 3 years in a plea deal (Dan Sullivan/Tampa Bay Times)

Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times:A Florida teen who hacked well-known Twitter accounts last summer and used them to ask for BTC, netting $100K+ worth, was sentenced to 3 years in a plea deal  —  Graham Ivan Clark, 18, agreed to plea guilty to fraud charges for a hack of several Twitter accounts last summer.

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Machine learning data management startup SafeGraph raises $45M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures and says it is used by over 7,000 data scientists (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:Machine learning data management startup SafeGraph raises $45M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures and says it is used by over 7,000 data scientists  —  While there are plenty of companies selling data about physical locations, SafeGraph CEO Auren Hoffman said his startup is …

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Socure, a cloud-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup, raises $100M led by Accel at a $1.3B valuation (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

Katie Roof / Bloomberg:Socure, a cloud-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup, raises $100M led by Accel at a $1.3B valuation  —  – Value is an increase from 2020, when it was worth $360 million  — Socure helps verify that customers are who they say they are

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GoPro refreshes its main smartphone app, now called Quik, and adds new features, including a private feed for organizing media (Sean O’Kane/The Verge)

Sean O’Kane / The Verge:GoPro refreshes its main smartphone app, now called Quik, and adds new features, including a private feed for organizing media  —  Another new direction for the camera company’s software  —  GoPro is releasing a new version of its main smartphone app that will now be called “Quik.”

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Despite progress in making social media accessible to deaf users, some creators say captioning can often be lackluster, leaving services inaccessible to many (Rachel Lerman/Washington Post)

Rachel Lerman / Washington Post:Despite progress in making social media accessible to deaf users, some creators say captioning can often be lackluster, leaving services inaccessible to many  —  Captioning on social media can be hit or miss, making the experience sometimes alienating for deaf users

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