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9:40 AM ET, January 8, 2025

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Clare Duffy / CNN:
Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines  —  New York CNN —  Meta on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to how it moderates content that will roll out in the coming months, including doing away with professional fact checking.
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Here are some of the horrible things that you can now say on Instagram and Facebook  —  Meta's policy changes allow calling gay and trans people ‘mentally ill’ while removing a ban on referring to women as ‘household objects.’ … As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added …
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Matt Lavietes / NBC News:
Meta's new hate speech guidelines permit users to say LGBTQ people are mentally ill
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Meta surrenders to the right on speech
Meta:   Hateful Conduct  —  Policy details  —  We believe that people use their voice and connect …
Justin Hendrix / Tech Policy Press:
Transcript: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Major Changes to Meta's Content Moderation Policies and Operations
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’
Maegan Vazquez / Washington Post:
Trump says he will rename the Gulf of Mexico.  Can he do that?  —  The president-elect told reporters Tuesday that he wanted the body of water called the Gulf of America, but he provided no details on how the change would be enacted.  —  Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States …
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New York Times:
Trump Floats Using Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal
Rhianna Schmunk / CBC News:
Trudeau says 'not a snowball's chance in hell' Canada joins U.S.
Susan Page / USA Today:
In exclusive sit-down, Biden reveals his biggest regret and the compliment Trump gave him  —  Interviews like this one have been rare in Biden's tenure.  He has held fewer news conferences and individual sessions with reporters than any president since at least Ronald Reagan.
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Marita Vlachou / HuffPost:
Biden Admits ‘Who The Hell Knows’ If He Could Have Fulfilled A Second Term  —  The president also claimed he would have defeated Donald Trump had he stayed in the race.  —  LOADING  —  President Joe Biden was surprisingly candid when asked if he believed he could have served another four-year term in the White House.
USA Today:
Regrets, precedent and legacy: 7 takeaways from Biden's exclusive interview with USA TODAY
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Fox News
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Trump seeks Supreme Court's intervention in New York “hush money” case  —  Washington — President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to intervene in the “hush money” case ahead of his scheduled sentencing Friday.  —  In a request for emergency relief filed with the Supreme Court …
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Merchan subtweets John Roberts ahead of Trump's sentencing  —  The chief justice thinks intimidating judges is bad — some of the time.  —  👨‍⚖️ 🏛️ ⏳ With corporate outlets obeying in advance, independent political coverage will be more vital than ever in 2025.
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
Mar-a-Lago meetings to include an offer on SALT cap  —  The incoming Trump administration plans to offer an expansion of the state and local tax deduction to Republican lawmakers from New York, New Jersey and California who are heading to Mar-a-Lago on Saturday for a sit-down with the president-elect.
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
GOP leaders still giving conflicting guidance on reconciliation plans
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Zuck's Great Suck Up
Discussion: Mercury News
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Mark Zuckerberg's MAGA makeover will reshape the entire internet
Arno Rosenfeld / The Forward:
Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors  —  The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are “abusing their position” by publishing content the group believes to be antisemitic, according to documents obtained by the Forward.
Hadas Gold / CNN:
Trump camp was fed questions for Fox News town hall in advance from person inside network, new book says  —  New York CNN —  President-elect Donald Trump's team was given the questions asked by Fox News anchors at an Iowa town hall last January in advance by someone inside the network …
Ellen Ioanes / Vox:
What banning medical debt from your credit score actually means  —  In the final days of its tenure, the Biden administration has banned credit reporting agencies from including medical debts in their reports, aiming to make it easier for people to access credit, including loans and mortgages.
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White  —  Meta's HR team is deleting internal employee criticism of new board member, UFC president and CEO Dana White, at the same time that CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced to the world that Meta will “get back to our roots …
Reuters:
EU will not tolerate attacks on its borders, France says after Trump Greenland comments  —  The European Union will not let other nations attack its sovereign borders, France's foreign minister said on Wednesday, responding to comments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on taking over Greenland.
Discussion: Politico, Semafor, The Sun and The Guardian
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
GOP-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court blocks certification of Democrat as winner of close high court race  —  The order allows the state Supreme Court to hear a challenge by the Republican candidate in the race — who trails by just 734 votes — to have 60,000 ballots thrown out.
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Washington Post:
GOP-led N.C. Supreme Court blocks finalizing election for Democratic justice
Discussion: NC Newsline and Daily Kos
Associated Press:
California governor says Pacific Palisades wildfire has destroyed many structures as winds kick up  —  A wildfire whipped up by extreme winds swept through a Los Angeles hillside dotted with celebrity residences Tuesday, burning homes in Pacific Palisades and prompting evacuation orders for tens of thousands.
Bonchie / RedState:
Sunny Hostin Accidently Exposed Her Husband's Alleged Insurance Scam, Now He's a Defendant in a RICO Case  —  Is Sunny Hostin the most empty-headed person on the planet?  That's a legitimate question given some of the things she's said on “The View” over the years.
Joe Biden / USA Today:
Read what Joe Biden said during his exclusive interview with USA TODAY: Transcript  —  Transcript of President Joe Biden's Oval Office interview with Susan Page, USA TODAY's Washington Bureau Chief, on Jan. 5, 2025:  —  PAGE: This is the limits of my technological ability.  —  BIDEN: Believe me...
Discussion: CBS News, Fox News and Daily Mail
 
 
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Zachary Folk / The Daily Beast:
Canadian Politician Fires Back at Trump: We'll Buy Two of YOUR States
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Matthew Brown / Associated Press:
Biden administration withdraws old-growth forest plan after getting pushback from industry and GOP
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Carter Carried Into Capitol to Lie in State
Ed. Condon / The Pillar:
How Cardinal McElroy came to Washington
Discussion: IJR and Washington Examiner
ABC News:
George Santos made $400K off Cameo appearances, prosecutors say
 Earlier Items: 
Mackenzie Wilkes / Politico:
A delay in confirmation plans for Linda McMahon as Education secretary
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Surgeon general offers ‘parting prescription’ for US
Discussion: People
Henry Farrell / Programmable Mutter:
We're getting the social media crisis wrong
New York Times:
Trump Warns ‘All Hell Will Break Out’ if Hostages in Gaza Are Not Freed
Associated Press:
Man who exploded Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI, police say
Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic:
The Great Crypto Crash
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Cannon Blocks Release of Special Counsel's Final Report on Trump Documents Investigation
 

 
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Variety:
Los Angeles fires prompt cancellation of movie premieres and tapings of Jimmy Kimmel Live and After Midnight, and the Critics Choice Awards have been postponed

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

Business Insider:
Instagram ends a program that paid creators for ads placed between content on their profiles; Meta began testing the program in the US in 2022
 
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