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Meta Ends Fact-Checking Program on Facebook and Instagram Meta is ending its fact-checking program for Facebook and Instagram in the United States and replacing it with community notes, similar to the system used by Elon Musk-owned social media platform X. The change is part of a larger package of reforms announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday. Meta will also begin to display more political content on its platforms, adjust its filters to focus on severe violations, and work with President-elect Donald Trump to resist censorship pressure from foreign nations.
"It's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a video.
After President-elect Donald Trump was elected in 2016, Meta started a fact-checking program. Third parties would review content, leading to posts being removed or flagged. Community notes are based on feedback from users. Notes that receive a certain number of votes across people with different ideologies are displayed under posts. (More) |
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Trump Not Ruling Out Military, Economic Coercion to Retake Panama Canal, Claim Greenland President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he would not rule out the possibility of using military or economic coercion to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, emphasizing their strategic significance to U.S. national security.
"No, I can't assure you on either of those two, but I can say this, we need them for economic security," Trump responded. "Look, the Panama Canal is vital to our country. It's being operated by China. We gave the Panama Canal to Panama. We didn't give it to China, and they've abused it."
While the canal is controlled by Panama, the ports at either end of the passage are operated by a subsidiary of a Hong Kong conglomerate, which has prompted national security concerns among U.S. lawmakers and experts. China expanded its Orwellian national security laws in Hong Kong. (More) |
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Is the Family Court System Biased Against Fathers? In child custody cases in many states in America, the default result is usually to appoint one parent, often the mother, as primary custodian of the child. The non-custodial parent (the father in about 80 percent of cases) is commonly relegated to seeing their kids only every other weekend.
After experiencing the family court system firsthand, Mark Ludwig is now on a mission to make equal shared parenting the default in divorce proceedings across the United States. His efforts have contributed to six states passing equal shared parenting legislation since 2018, and Ludwig is currently working on similar bills in dozens of other states.
He argues the approach is not just better for the parents but also for the wellbeing of children. "I'll fight just as hard for mothers as I do fathers, because I'm not fighting for the mother or the father. I'm fighting for the child," Ludwig said in an interview with our colleague Jan Jekielek on American Thought Leaders. (Watch the full episode here.) How did you enjoy today's Morning Brief? Tell us what you think here. |
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