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4:40 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.”
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 …
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
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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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 …
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:   Trump Admits Jack Smith Found Vast ‘Criminal Conspiracies’
Public Notice:
How Democrats should talk about Trump's corruption
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Associated Press:
Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   Trump could be setting himself up for a ‘powerful’ early failure
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump muses over renaming Gulf of Mexico ‘Gulf of America’
Associated Press:
Trump announces $20B US investment by Emirati businessman
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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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.
Politico:
Cannon temporarily blocks release of Jack Smith report  —  U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing special counsel Jack Smith's final report on his two criminal investigations into Donald Trump.  —  The extraordinary move …
Discussion: New Republic and RedState
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Judge temporarily blocks release of special counsel report on Trump cases as court fight simmers
Daniel Barnes / NBC News:
Judge blocks release of special counsel report on Trump's criminal cases
Discussion: UPI and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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: USA Today, CNN, Raw Story and Daily Kos
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NBC News:
House passes Laken Riley Act to amp up border enforcement and put pressure on Democrats
New Republic:   Transcript: Trump Drops New Hints on How He'll Screw Over Mike Johnson
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 …
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New York Times:
Appeals Court Judge Refuses to Halt Trump's New York Sentencing
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.
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and Raw Story
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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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
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.
Associated Press:
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96  —  Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, has died.
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Tassilo Hummel / Reuters:
Former French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen dies aged 96
Discussion: BBC and The Sun
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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Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post:
Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing schism between how platforms do content moderation in the US and in stricter regions like Europe

Bloomberg:
Ex-Facebook director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of “where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content”

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Piers Morgan and News UK strike a deal that gives him ownership of the Uncensored YouTube channel; News UK will get a share of ad revenue until 2029

 
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