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Of course it is a blatant lie just like almost everything they say now.

Giphy is free to sell itself to almost any other company on Earth except FB. This has no chilling effect whatsoever

Name another company that wants to buy it.

Good point, it's almost as if allowing large monopolists to have their way has a chilling effect on people wanting to compete with them.

It’s not the regulator’s job to find other buyers for Gyphy. There’s a million companies who could buy it, doesn’t mean they will. But the goal here from FB is clearly to monopolise data aggregation, which regulators rightly have to stop.

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