Source: Meta plans to end human curation of its UK Facebook News tab, contracted to a team of ~15 journalists at Upday, and switch to an AI system in early 2023 (William Turvill/Press Gazette)

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta’s Oversight Board says the company should be more careful with automated moderation and criticizes removing a cartoon depicting police violence in Colombia  —  Meta’s Oversight Board says the company should be more careful with automated moderation tools, criticizing it for removing a cartoon depicting police violence in Colombia.

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk:
Estonia-based 3Commas, an automated crypto trading and portfolio management service, has raised a $37M Series B  —  The CEO of crypto custodian Copper also led the round for the trading bot-driven ecosystem.  —  3Commas, an automated crypto trading bot platform, has raised $37 million …

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Mozilla acquires Pulse, which made an automated status updater for Slack before shuttering, and plans to use its ML tech to improve personalization in Pocket  —  Firefox developer Mozilla is making a rare foray into the world of mergers and acquisitions, with news that it has snapped …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Laika, provider of automated security compliance software for organizations, raised a $50M Series C led by Fin Capital, bringing its total funding to $98M  —  Compliance with privacy and security frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR has become a central component not just of how organizations build trust …

Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Sistrix: Google’s September 2022 algorithm update affected several UK publishers, as search rankings for LADbible fell 52%, Mail Online 37%, and The Mirror 27%  —  Ten of the leading news websites in the UK saw their visibility in search rankings reduced as a result of Google’s latest core algorithm update in September.

Casey Newton / Platformer:
Source: Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox directed the New Product Experimentation division to scale back and focus entirely on short-form video innovation  —  Facebook’s New Product Experimentation division is scaling back its mission dramatically, Platformer has learned.