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Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.

Proclaiming his second inauguration as “Liberation Day” in America, Donald Trump today lamented the loss of homes for some of the “wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country” in wildfire ravaged Los Angeles.

President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump kicked off Inauguration Day with a longtime tradition: Attending services at St. John’s Episcopal Church across Lafayette Square.

The Saturday Night Live cold open saw James Austin Johnson returning as Donald Trump, two days before the inauguration, this time talking about the TikTok ban.

TikTok CEO Shou Chew is scheduled attend Donald Trump‘s presidential inauguration on Monday, a source familiar with the plans confirmed.

Jack Dunn In his final address to the nation, five days before turning over the Oval Office to President-elect Donald Trump, President Joe Biden delivered a dire warning against the dangers of big tech and a social media landscape without a fact-checking. Biden first warned of an “oligarchy” forming in the upper echelons of America that is threatening democracy as we know it.

President Joe Biden devoted a great deal of his farewell address warning of the concentration of power and wealth, particularly when it comes to what he dubbed the “tech industrial complex.”

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Leonardo DiCaprio has donated $1 million to Los Angeles fire relief efforts. “The Los Angeles wildfires are devastating our city,” the Oscar winner wrote in a message on Instagram stories. “I am committing $1 million in partnership with @rewild’s Rapid Response Program to support both urgent needs and post-fire recovery efforts.

Leonardo DiCaprio has committed $1 million to wildfire relief efforts in Los Angeles County, the Oscar winner announced on Wednesday.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor YouTube, Google and Meta are pitching in to help L.A. recover from the wildfires that have caused devastation across the region and forced thousands to evacuate in the past week. Google and YouTube are contributing $15 million to L.A.-area relief organizations.

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms plans to lay off about 5% of its workforce, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg warning of an “intense” year ahead.

deluge of virtue-signaling moves taken by Meta to placate conservatives as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office.Last week, CEO Zuckerberg announced that Meta would eliminate its third-party fact-checking system and replace it with a user-based “Community Notes” feature similar to the model employed by X.Meta also overhauled its “Hateful Conduct” policy, carving out a host of exemptions that allow certain types of bias-motivated attacks directed at specific groups, including the LGBTQ community, under the guise of promoting “free speech” on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.When The Intercept wrote about the confusing and seemingly contradictory guidelines for determining what types of content are allowed or prohibited on its platforms, Meta locked access to company policies and training materials, which had previously been publicly accessible.Last Friday, Meta went a step further, announcing it would end diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. It eliminated its chief diversity officer role, ended its goals calling for certain numbers of women and minorities to be hired, and said it would no longer prioritize minority-owned businesses when hiring vendors.Additionally, Meta reportedly deleted nonbinary and transgender themes from its Messenger chat app, which allows users to customize the app’s colors and wallpaper, as reported by 404 Media.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are slamming Meta’s decision to kill fact-checking on social media apps Facebook and Instagram. On Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex took to the website of their charitable Archewell Foundation to call out the company’s newest policy change led by Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg.

fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram and Threads.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex blasted the company’s latest policy changes and condemned the social media mogul for bidding farewell to the longstanding fact-checking program these platforms have used in previous years.“It doesn’t matter whether your views are left, right or somewhere in between — the latest news from Meta about changes to their policies directly undermines free speech,” the couple said in a statement published on their Archewell website.

MSNBC on Monday said that Lawrence O’Donnell has secured an interview with President Joe Biden that will air Thursday at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on his primetime show The Last Word.

The outgoing POTUS took to the bully pulpit Friday while the CEO of Meta went on Joe Rogan today with different takes on facts and the truth.

announced the change on January 7, noting that it was eliminating its third-party fact-checking system and replacing it with a user-based “Community Notes” model similar to the one employed by X.Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg further announced the company would be relocating its content moderation teams from California to Texas to “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.”All of it is being done in the name of promoting “free expression,” with Meta kowtowing to right-wing MAGA critics who claim the platform has limited the visibility of posts from conservatives or and has censored “free speech” as it pertains to religious or social issues, such as users who refuse to recognize transgender identity as valid.Perhaps most appallingly, Meta has updated its “Hateful Conduct” policy to allow the use of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and offensive terms, according to The Verge.In its revised policy, Meta defines prohibited “hateful conduct” as direct attacks against people — rather than concepts or institutions — on the basis of protected characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or affliction with a serious disease.It also considers age a protected characteristic when referenced along with another protected characteristic.However, it appears to have carved out a host of exemptions that will specifically allow certain types of hate-based speech directed at LGBTQ individuals on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.For example, Meta claims that it prohibits “calls for exclusion or segregation when targeting people based on protected characteristics.” However, it will allow users to argue in favor of excluding LGBTQ

January 10, 2025It comes after Elon Musk announced back in 2022 that parody accounts would need to mark themselves as such or risk a permanent suspension following a number of Hollywood actors with verified accounts who had their pages suspended for parodying the social media platform’s boss including those of US comedians Sarah Silverman and Kathy Griffin.“Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended,” Musk said at the time.Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta will get rid of fact-checkers and allow for more political content to be posted.The action will be implemented across Meta platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Threads, and is set to “dramatically reduce the amount of censorship” implemented. This is a similar model to X (formerly known as Twitter), which relies on other users to add context and warnings to posts.Zuckerberg announced the news in a recent video, saying that the move will begin in the United States and come in light of Donald Trump returning to The White House as US President.The Community Notes approach was introduced to Twitter by Musk following his takeover of the platform.

Axios.Cook, who is gay, joins several other tech CEOs who have contributed to Trump’s inaugural fund, including Sam Altman, the gay CEO of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, who is similarly donating $1 million of his personal fortune to the fund. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are also donating $1 million, but through their respective companies.Cook believes the presidential inauguration is an important American tradition and is donating in the spirit of unity.

Media veterans Jeffrey Katzenberg and Linda Yaccarino offered starkly different reactions to Meta’s decision to stop fact-checking Facebook and Instagram in separate appearances at CES.

Ellise Shafer Meta is replacing its fact-checking systems on Facebook and Instagram with a “community notes” model similar to Elon Musk’s X, Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday. In a video message posted on the platforms, Zuckerberg said, “It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.” He cited “widespread debate” over potential harm from online content, and said that “governments and legacy media” have pushed for greater censorship on social media.