Unsealed court docs in a privacy user profiling suit against Meta show that apps from Zynga, Yahoo, and others had extensive access to users’ friends’ data (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Ahead of the midterms, US political campaigns are using voter-profiling companies and vast amounts of data to target campaign ads on guns, vaccines, and QAnon  —  To help campaigns target ads, voter-profiling firms score millions of Americans on issues like guns, vaccines and QAnon.

Axios:
Source: Yahoo plans to launch a retail stock trading service for Yahoo Finance and strike deals with sports betting companies to bolster Yahoo Sports  —  Yahoo’s latest deal underscores its move to boost revenues and use its cash to grow its core businesses, including Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Mail.

Jef Feeley / Bloomberg:
Unsealed court docs: Peiter Zatko said he burned 10 notebooks and deleted 100 computer files at the behest of Twitter managers as part of his severance package  —  Just before Elon Musk revived his proposal to buy Twitter Inc. last week, the billionaire accused the company of ordering …

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
New York and the DOJ urged a federal appeals court to reinstate an antitrust suit brought by 48 state AGs that alleged Meta schemed to “buy or bury” its rivals  —  New York and the Justice Department urged a federal appeals court to reinstate an antitrust suit that dozens …

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
NY judge rules the bulk of the state AGs’ ad tech antitrust suit against Google can proceed, but dismissed the claim Meta and Google colluded via Jedi Blue  —  An antitrust suit by state attorneys general accusing Alphabet Inc.’s Google of monopolizing the technology underlying online advertising …

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Munich-based Holidu, which runs a search engine and booking website for vacation rentals, raised a €104M Series E led by 83North, with €75M equity and €25M debt  —  Munich-based software and services vacation rental startup, Holidu, has topped up its coffers …