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5:20 PM ET, January 7, 2025

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Toronto Sun:
Zuckerberg wears $900,000 watch to announce end of Meta fact checks  —  Mark Zuckerberg wore a rare Swiss watch worth about $900,000 in a video explaining his company's decision to end third-party fact checking on its social media platforms in the U.S.  —  Play Video
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Meta:
More Speech and Fewer Mistakes  —  Meta's platforms are built to be places where people can express themselves freely.  That can be messy.  On platforms where billions of people can have a voice, all the good, bad and ugly is on display.  But that's free expression.
NBC News:
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a ‘community notes’ system similar to X  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices, saying that the election felt like a “cultural tipping point.”
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Zuckerberg Achieves Trump Lap Monkey Badge And Other Platform News
Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Meta ends fact-checking program as Zuckerberg vows to restore free expression on Facebook, Instagram
Clare Duffy / CNN:
Meta is getting rid of fact checkers. Zuckerberg acknowledged more harmful content will appear on the platforms now
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Cannon temporarily blocks report on Trump classified-documents probe  —  Two Trump employees charged alongside him in the classified documents case separately asked Judge Aileen Cannon to block the release.  —  The federal judge in Florida who dismissed the case against Donald Trump …
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Ella Lee / The Hill:
New York appeals court denies halting Trump's sentencing  —  A New York appellate judge on Tuesday declined to suspend President-elect Trump's Friday sentencing on his hush money criminal conviction.  —  Judge Ellen Gesmer of the state's midlevel appeals court rejected Trump's emergency petition …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Cannon Blocks Release of Special Counsel's Final Report on Trump Documents Investigation  —  Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee who dismissed the documents case in its entirety this summer, on Tuesday temporarily barred the special counsel, Jack Smith, from releasing the results of his investigation to the public.
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:   Trump Admits Jack Smith Found Vast ‘Criminal Conspiracies’
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Judge temporarily blocks release of special counsel report on Trump cases as court fight simmers
Politico:
Cannon temporarily blocks release of Jack Smith report
Discussion: New Republic and RedState
Daniel Barnes / NBC News:
Judge blocks release of special counsel report on Trump's criminal cases
Discussion: UPI and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Appeals Court Judge Refuses to Halt Trump's New York Sentencing
NBC News:
Trump White House seeks to limit staff who have direct access to the president
Associated Press:
Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Greenland with a message from his dad: 'We're going to treat you well'  —  President-elect Donald Trump told residents of Greenland that “we're going to treat you well” as his oldest son visited the mineral-rich Danish territory that's home to a large U.S. military base …
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Associated Press:
Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal  —  President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
In sum: Trump just left open using military force against a NATO ally  —  Trump regularly declines to rule things out, but this one on Greenland is different.  —  President-elect Donald Trump is the king of not ruling things out.  It's his default response when a possibility …
Washington Post:
Trump won't rule out military or economic coercion to acquire Greenland, Panama Canal
Politico:
‘Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders,’ says Danish PM as Donald Trump Jr. arrives
Nacha Cattan / Bloomberg:
Trump Calls SALT-Focused Republicans to Florida Before Tax Fight  —  A cohort of about 20 Republican House members from New York, New Jersey and California was invited to meet with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate Saturday ahead of a looming fight over an extension of his 2017 tax cuts.
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Cami Mondeaux / Washington Examiner:   SALT emerges as redline for blue state Republicans in reconciliation negotiations
New Republic:   Transcript: Trump Drops New Hints on How He'll Screw Over Mike Johnson
Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Melania Trump Documentary Scores Massive Amazon Payday  —  It's 2025, and even the Walt Disney Co. is kissing Donald Trump's ring.  But it's still stunning that Amazon is paying a whopping $40 million to license the Brett Ratner-directed Melania Trump documentary.
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Biden admin finalizes rule to ban medical debt from credit reports … - The CFPB estimates that for Americans with medical debt, the new rule could raise their credit scores by an average of 20 points.  — “People who get sick shouldn't have their financial future upended,” CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in the press release.
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
CFPB issues rules to remove medical debt from consumer credit reports  —  Credit-reporting companies and debt collectors have previously opposed the policy, which could face political and legal challenges under President-elect Donald Trump.  —  The U.S. government on Tuesday issued new rules …
Discussion: Mother Jones
New York Times:
Trump Blurs Lines in $20 Billion Data Center Announcement and Other Deals  —  Even before the start of the new administration, there has been repeated blurring of lines between the federal government efforts and Trump family businesses.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump …
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CNBC:
Trump announces $20 billion foreign investment to build new U.S. data centers
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump muses over renaming Gulf of Mexico ‘Gulf of America’  —  President-elect Trump on Tuesday told reporters he wants to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America as he bemoaned that Mexico was taking advantage of the United States on trade and immigration.
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Politico:
New Dem additions to a plum panel are spurring private angst  —  An under-the-radar decision to add Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and about half a dozen other members to the House Energy and Commerce is causing some angst among House Democrats, according to three people familiar with the matter …
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Federal prosecutors say they've uncovered ‘additional criminal conduct’ by NYC Mayor Adams  —  Federal prosecutors who indicted Mayor Adams on corruption charges last year allege they have uncovered “additional criminal conduct” that the mayor and others engaged in.
Discussion: AM New York
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Axios:
Scoop: Senate Dems delay Tulsi Gabbard nomination … - Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is balking at GOP requests to hold a hearing for Gabbard early next week, according to multiple sources familiar with the conversations.
FIRE:
FIRE to defend veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer in Trump lawsuit over outlier election poll  —  “Punishing someone for their political prediction is about as unconstitutional as it gets,” said FIRE Chief Counsel Bob Corn-Revere.  “This is America.  No one should be afraid to predict the outcome of an election.
Discussion: The Hill and Reason
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Washington Post Lays Off 4 Percent of Its Work Force  —  The layoffs will affect employees across The Post's business operations, not its newsroom.  —  The Washington Post has started laying off roughly 4 percent of its work force, the company said on Tuesday, as the newspaper struggles to stem millions of dollars in annual losses.
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Georgia GOP boots former lieutenant governor who backed Harris  —  The Georgia Republican Party has booted longtime President-elect Trump critic former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R), who backed Vice President Harris's 2024 bid for the White House.  —  A resolution from the Georgia GOP's State …
 
 
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Politico:
Republican governors head to Mar-a-Lago
ABC News:
Trump DOJ officials may have tried to influence 2020 election through media leaks: IG report
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump declines to rule out ‘military or economic’ force to expand U.S.
Discussion: Drezner's World
NBC News:
House passes Laken Riley Act to amp up border enforcement and put pressure on Democrats
The White House:
Statement by Press Secretary Ernesto Apreza on Vice President Harris' Travel to Singapore, Bahrain, and Germany
Discussion: Reuters and Associated Press
 Earlier Items: 
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The New Rasputins … frosty pine trees rim the edge of an icy lake.  Snow is falling; spa music plays in the background.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump could be setting himself up for a ‘powerful’ early failure
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Why Mike Johnson's fake “Jefferson prayer” matters
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96
Public Notice:
How Democrats should talk about Trump's corruption
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Meta revamping its content moderation systems with Community Notes is good, but Zuckerberg pretending it's about free speech is bad, and the timing is stupid

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out Daily Listen, which uses AI to generate a five-minute personalized audio overview of stories and topics that a user follows, to its mobile app

Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Adam Mosseri says Meta is adding political content recommendations to Instagram and Threads; Threads' political content control setting will have three options
 
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