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9:00 AM ET, January 8, 2025

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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  —  Changes to its hate speech guidelines were among broader policy shifts Meta made to its moderation practices.  —  Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Meta surrenders to the right on speech
Clare Duffy / CNN:
Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines
Meta:   Hateful Conduct  —  Policy details  —  We believe that people use their voice and connect …
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 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 …
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
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
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Mark Zuckerberg's MAGA makeover will reshape the entire internet
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Zuckerberg Achieves Trump Lap Monkey Badge And Other Platform News
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
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.
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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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 …
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.
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: Semafor, The Sun, The Guardian and Politico
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.
Zachary Folk / The Daily Beast:
Canadian Politician Fires Back at Trump: We'll Buy Two of YOUR States  —  THEM APPLES  —  “How about if we buy Alaska.  And we'll throw in Minnesota and Minneapolis at the same time.”
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
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.
 
 
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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
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data
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
Discussion: New York Times
 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
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US says Sudanese rebel force has committed genocide, and it imposes sanctions on the group's leaders
 

 
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

Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
A look at AI-enabled wearables like Bee AI and Omi, with embedded always-on microphones to record conversations around users and provide actionable insights
 
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