Well it certainly makes one wonder what else could have been the "Somewhere" from which the UK "gotta start"?a Off the top of my head...
* Elon Musk + Twitter 2022
* Microsoft + Activision 2022
* Salesforce + Slack 2022
* GitHub + Microsoft 2019
* Red Hat + IBM 2018
The Giphy deal, at like ~$400m, is so small it hardly even registers on my radar. It's not a small deal, nor a large deal. It's like the UK saw that it would be irritating to Meta, but not too irritating for them to exit the UK over.