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Facebook To Release Q1 Earnings: Focus On Ad Revenue, User Data, Jio Investment

If Facebook, inc. (NASDAQ: FB) was trying to throw a distraction at investors ahead of earnings this Wednesday, it might be hard-pressed to find a bigger bone than its $5.7 billion purchase last week of a piece of India's Jio Platforms.The buy gave FB a leading role among the minority investors, with a 10% chunk of Reliance Industries--the parent of India's largest telecom operator, Reliance Jio Infocomm. It represents an important link into a huge market that FB might want to "friend."A Focus on the Future? When FB reports after Wednesday's close, many FB investors may be more interested to learn how FB fared in Q1, when many of its users were stuck in their homes. But the purchase--FB's second-largest ever after its $22 billion mega acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014--is not about what happened in Q1 or even what's happening in Q2. It's about what might happen in quarters far...