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1:30 PM ET, January 7, 2025

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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.
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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.”
Robert Booth / The Guardian:
Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content  —  Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads  —  Meta will get rid of factcheckers, “dramatically reduce the amount of censorship” and recommend …
New York Times:
Live Updates: Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term  —  The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts.  It is likely to please President-elect Trump and his allies.
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Mark Zuckerberg Is a Surrender Monkey  —  1. Daggett Industries  —  Meta (née Facebook) is deep into a sustained campaign of capitulation to Donald Trump.  —  Last Thursday Mark Zuckerberg named Joel Kaplan as the company's head of public policy.  Kaplan is, of course …
Clare Duffy / CNN:
Meta is getting rid of fact checkers.  Zuckerberg acknowledged more harmful content will appear on the platforms now  —  New York CNN —  In a number of sweeping changes that will significantly alter the way that posts, videos and other content are moderated online …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Meta ends fact-checking program as Zuckerberg vows to restore free expression on Facebook, Instagram
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Are Finding New Ways to Kiss Trump's Ass
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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Politico:
Trump urges Garland to block release of Jack Smith's final report  —  His lawyers wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland.  —  Donald Trump and two of his allies are making a last-minute push to block special counsel Jack Smith from issuing his final report on his two dismissed criminal cases against the president-elect.
Politico:
Cannon temporarily blocks release of Jack Smith report
Discussion: RedState
William Kristol / The Bulwark:   Release Jack Smith's Report
Daniel Barnes / NBC News:
Judge blocks release of special counsel report on Trump's criminal cases
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Trump Admits Jack Smith Found Vast ‘Criminal Conspiracies’
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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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Lorie Konish / CNBC:
CFPB finalizes rule to remove estimated $49 billion in medical debt from credit reports
Discussion: Washington Post and IJR
Politico:
Trump's one-bill two-step perplexes GOP senators  —  GOP senators are questioning the president-elect's commitment to “one powerful bill.”  —  If Donald Trump thought he was settling the GOP's most important strategy dispute, Senate Republicans are not getting the message.
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
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Miranda Bryant / The Guardian:
Danish king changes coat of arms amid row with Trump over Greenland  —  Design shows intent to keep control of Faroe Islands and Greenland - which Trump says he would like the US to buy  —  The Danish king has shocked some historians by changing the royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland …
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Politico:
‘Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders,’ says Danish PM as Donald Trump Jr. arrives
CNBC:
Trump announces $20 billion foreign investment to build new U.S. data centers … President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $20 billion foreign investment to build new data centers across the United States.  —  Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani, a Trump associate and founder …
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Transition Live Updates: Trump Hints at U.S. Territorial Expansion and Airs Grievances
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Why Mike Johnson's fake “Jefferson prayer” matters  —  Replacing facts with phony history is a linchpin of the Christian nationalist movement  —  One cannot say for certain that Rep. Mike Johnson was deliberately lying during his acceptance speech to return as Speaker of the House.
Discussion: Raw Story and KHOU-TV
Tassilo Hummel / Reuters:
Former French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen dies aged 96  —  Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right National Front party who tapped into working class concerns over immigration and globalisation, shaking up the French political establishment, has died, sources close to his daughter Marine Le Pen said on Tuesday.
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Associated Press:
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump could be setting himself up for a ‘powerful’ early failure  —  Trump wants to go big with his first legislative priority, but major pitfalls await — if he even recognizes them.  —  President-elect Donald Trump has never been terribly concerned with the legitimate obstacles in front of him or the finer points of legislating.
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.
Public Notice:
How Democrats should talk about Trump's corruption  —  “There's really a need for a whole new set of reforms,” Noah Bookbinder says.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Donald Trump is the most brazenly self-dealing president in history.  He's surrounded these days by an obscene cast of billionaires …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Popular Information:
10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021  —  After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their political influence.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans Think History Will Rate Biden Presidency Negatively  —  Perceptions of how Trump's first term will be regarded have improved considerably  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Many more Americans expect history to judge Joe Biden's presidency unfavorably rather than favorably.
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Politico:
Pressure mounts on EU to use legal weapons against Musk's interference  —  European Commission says it will study whether X gives unfair boost to far right in German election.  —  What are you waiting for, Brussels?  —  Elon Musk's decision to host German far-right leader Alice Weidel …
Discussion: HotAir and Instapundit
 
 
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Jorge Bonilla / Newsbusters:
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Discussion: RedState
James D. Zirin / The Hill:
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Ivana Saric / Axios:
Trump pushes “president-elect immunity” to fight hush money case sentencing
Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
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Meta:
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. in Talks to Swap Detained Americans in Afghanistan for Guantanamo Prisoner
Discussion: Fox News and The Independent
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
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