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Mark Zuckerberg Compares Meta’s Fact-Checking to ‘1984’ as His Apps Prepare for Community Notes
The Facebook boss says a key reason he’s ditching fact-checking is because the Biden Administration “basically pushed” the company to censor COVID-19 posts
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TikTok Says It Will Shut Down in US if Ban Is Not Lifted
The Supreme Court on Friday appeared unlikely to overturn the app’s Jan. 19 ban date
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On the Ground for ‘Apocalyptic’ LA Wildfires: 5 TV Reporters Talk Covering Unprecedented Level of Destruction
CBS News reporter Kris Van Cleave tells TheWrap he saw a 91-year-old man’s home burn to the ground in his Pasadena hometown
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LA Rattled by Accidental All-County Evacuation Order: ‘That’s a Big Oops’
Local TV stations confirmed that the citywide emergency notice was issued by mistake
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HuffPost Editor-in-Chief Resigns as Part of Ongoing Newsroom Layoffs
“I could not, in good faith, ask others to make this difficult decision without doing the same,” Danielle Belton writes in a staff memo
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NY Appeals Court Rejects Fox Bid to Dismiss $2.7 Billion Smartmatic Defamation Lawsuit
A five-judge panel of the Appellate Division in Manhattan issued the order on Thursday
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Vox Media Lays Off 12 More Employees Just 1 Month After Last Round of Cuts
The layoffs will impact several teams at Vox.com itself, as opposed to the company’s other brands
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LA Times Owner Criticizes Mayor Karen Bass Over Wildfires: ‘Competence Matters’
Patrick Soon-Shiong says her decision to cut the Los Angeles Fire Department budget raises “serious questions” amid reports of empty fire hydrants
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Trump Was Fed Questions by Fox News Before Town Hall, New Book Suggests
Donald Trump’s team “workshopped answers” after getting them from an insider before the 2024 town hall, according to Politico’s Alex Isenstadt
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Piers Morgan Ditches Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, Will Take Ownership of His YouTube Show ‘Uncensored’
“It’s clear from the recent U.S. election that YouTube is an increasingly powerful and influential media platform,” he says
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Meta Pivots Away From Protections, Guardrails as Trump 2.0 Looms | Analysis
Is Mark Zuckerberg returning to his free-speech roots?
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Justin Baldoni Attorney Says Blake Lively Complaint Is Because She ‘Didn’t Read the Book’ | Video
Bryan Freedman tells Megyn Kelly that the actress “didn’t know” what “It Ends With Us” was about while breaking down her sexual harassment allegations
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HuffPost to Lay Off 30 Editorial Staffers, Citing ‘Growing Challenges to Our Business’
Editor-in-chief Danielle C. Belton announced the decision in a company email Tuesday
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Washington Post Lays Off Roughly 100 Employees
The Jeff Bezos-owned paper cuts about 4% of its workforce, with members of its advertising, marketing and information technology teams affected
