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Disinformation campaigner accuses former US government of bending Zuckerberg’s knee, as Meta’s Trump ends factchecking
Nina Jankowicz, a former homeland security official It is loaded with battle information, said Meta’s founder Mark ZuckerbergHe decides to end factchecking on his platforms “bending the knee”. Donald Trump.
“Let’s see – the factors were not politically motivated as Zuckerberg suggests, but they were perceived as an attempt to politically influence those who share Zuck now and have surrender,” said Jankowicz, who is known to lead the American Sun Project, an anti-disinformation group.
“Zuck’s announcement is a complete knee-jerk reaction to Trump and an attempt to catch Musk at the bottom of his race. The consequences are very wide open. Factchecking was not a panacea for distortion on Facebook, but it was an important part. The bumpers are fully off the lane now. The checks made do not suppress the speech, rather there are more speeches.”
He also noted that the end of fact-checking has implications for outlets around the world, as many deal with Meta to assess content on their platforms;
Facebook has already filed a press release and this will be the last nail in the coffin; newsrooms — especially outside the States where subscription copies are hard to sell — have to provide concessions from Facebook to factchecks. That money allows them to do other journalism!
Keep an eye on his TechScape wallets that went out this morning Blake Montgomery He thought about how the departure from Meta of former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was a sign of a big change in the offing of the global social media network. Here’s more from his newsletter, which you can subscribe to here”:
Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom, is now the former head of global affairs at Meta. He announced his resignation on Thursday after six years at the equipment giant. He worked for two years in the top management of the company.
Announcing his departure, Clegg wrote: “It was truly the experience of a lifetime! … I hope that they have played some role in seeking to bridge the very other worlds of technology and politics. It sold for about $19m The goal shares during his time in the company, and holds about $21m more. He may return to British politics as the party he once led, the Liberal Democrats, won a record number of seats in last year’s general election.
In the titles of Clegg’s books you can see how he was a polarized younger politician: Politics: Between the Borders (and How to Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)) neither of them hit two punches with these books: we are living in the end times, and Brexit has not stopped farther to the right than when Trump first won the White House. That Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, so well-connected in Democratic circles, isn’t even on Meta’s board anymore. Clegg no longer fits the times.
Clegg is a centrist, stating in 2011 that his political party was a radical centre. More than twelve years later, political centrism has collapsed, unable to compete with the superlative appeal of extremists, especially on Facebook.
Clegg is also a globalist at the time of protectionism and nationalism, having negotiated the European Commission’s deals with China and Russia in his previous career. A global design perspective makes financial sense at Meta, which boasts users in every corner of the world. Such a view is contrary to “America First”, which is the question when Mark Zuckerberg gives 1m to Trump’s inaugural fund, and Meta displays Ray-Bans over dinner at Mar-a-Lago.
Meta shows Trump’s return to end Factchecking Project
Meta is ending its practice of having factcheckers weigh in on content discussions on platforms like Facebook, citing company leaders. Donald Trumpreturn to power in the United States of America for the purpose of terminating the account.
The social media giant developed a factchecking program in the wake of Trump’s first election victory in 2016, which coincided with an increase in inflammatory and inaccurate content on its platforms, often from conservatives.
In conversation only the conservative outlet Fox News was given to report the change; Joel KaplanThe chief global business officer of Meta, who has been working for the republic for a long time, said: “We have a new administration coming in that is far away from censoring companies and pressuring companies. [is more] a huge supporter of free speech.”
The founder Mark Zuckerberg factchecks said it should be replaced with common features as seen in X, which was owned by a close Trump partner Elon Musk. In a video announcing the change, Zuckerberg said that “factcheckers have recently become too politically motivated and have more trust than they created.”
He also added that Meta “is working with President Trump to push back against governments around the world that are targeting American companies and pushing for more censorship.”
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Donald Trump promises to pardon the accused after taking office on January 6, and the Guardian Michael Sainato he announces to the commander of the militia that he has given a long sentence about the attack to the governor designated not to pass it by;
Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys group who receives a 22-year sentence seditious conspiracy related to the February 6 attack on the Capitol in the US in 2021, Donald Trump formally asked for forgiveness.
Convicted Tarrio on oath of helping to orchestrate the insurrection. At the time of the attack Tarrio had been forbidden by prosecutors from the city to burn a flag stolen from a historic Black church in December 2020 during a protest march against Trump’s lost election.
Prosecutors said Tarrio was forced to force hundreds of Proud Boys to participate in the January 6 attack, and several members of the group’s top group — a far-right militant organization — were at the forefront of the violence.
US District Judge Tim Kelly, a Trump nominee, sentenced Tarrio to 22 years in prison after his conviction. It is the longest sentence of anyone defending January 6.
Trump’s lawyers recommend that the release of a special policy report should be done by the incoming president
attorneys for Donald Trump I asked his attorney Merrick Garland to stop the special plan Jack Smith on the completed report of the investigations of the President-elect. If Garland refuses to do so, they propose that the decision to pay the report be made by whoever becomes attorney general when Trump takes office.
The position is likely to be filled Pam Bondihe is the chief prosecutor in Florida whom Trump nominated to bring justice after his first stint, a former congressman Matt Gaetz, He didn’t want the job including allegations of obscenity and the use of poison.
We will find out if Garland heard Trump’s request. The president-elect’s attorneys also asked a federal judge to intervene and block the release of Smith’s report. Here is more on their requests from the Guardian Hugh Lowell:
The Trumpet moves to narrow the release of a special policy report and the sentence in silence nears the condemnation of money
Hello, US political blog readers. Donald Trump He may be less than two weeks away from returning to the White House, but his lawyers are busy moving to block final progress in the delayed criminal cases. Yesterday they asked a judge in New York John Merchant The president-elect was sentenced last year to delay sentencing on 34 felony counts of fraud. whose movement was denied and the hearing is expected to take place on Friday. Case by Manhattan district attorney; Alvin BraggThere was only one Trump’s four criminal charges that he should go to trial before having the victory in the November election. His indictment in Georgia for alleged election fraud four years ago has been stayed, likely indefinitely, with a special counsel. Jack Smith dropped charges against Trump for allegedly hiding documents and attempting to subvert the 2020 election.
However, the Justice Department has ordered the department to release Smith’s report at the end of its investigation, which could shed light on Trump’s actions. late yesterday He asked the elected representatives of the president the issue of the attorney general Merrick Garland not to complete the report. We’ll let you know if Garland makes his response known today.
Here something else is going on;
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Donald Trump Jr he is going to come will arrive in Greenland today, the huge island that his father was talking about buying from the United States of America from Denmark. We’ll see how that visit goes.
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Jimmy Carter in the state of the US Capitol today, when Kamala Harris placing the crown on his desk and praising him at 4.30pm ET.
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House of Ambassadors and vote in Leo Laken The action is the first step in the country’s current crackdown on undocumented immigrants who have been arrested by immigration authorities for theft charges.