Zuckerberg dumps fact-checkers after CHD asks Supreme Court to hear censorship case against Facebook

Zuckerberg dumps fact-checkers after CHD asks Supreme Court to hear censorship case against Facebook

ather than turning to third parties to fact-check posts, Meta will use a “Community Notes model” in which social (media) users themselves decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, said Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan in a statement.

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Small businesses worry Trump’s next regime will be corrupt, controlled by crooks and the little guy is guaranteed losses

Small businesses worry Trump’s next regime will be corrupt, controlled by crooks and the little guy is guaranteed losses

Take Trump’s promised tariff war. Under the new round of tariffs, economists warned, only the biggest businesses – those with the connections to flatter Trump and the resources to hire lobbyists – will be the big winners.

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Right of reply: Kenya National Biosafety Authority is committed to human, animal and environmental health

Right of reply: Kenya National Biosafety Authority is committed to human, animal and environmental health

The authority is mandated among others to promote awareness and education among the general public in matters relating to biosafety, a function that it has taken seriously through various activities across the country.

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GMO tomato project funded by Gates Foundation and US taxpayers hits roadblock

GMO tomato project funded by Gates Foundation and US taxpayers hits roadblock

Although the researchers experimented with an ornamental tomato variety, applying this technology to food crops for human consumption raises health concerns, Antoniou said.

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While US claims to be foremost defender of Free Press DOJ probe finds Trump regime secretely spied on journalists

While US claims to be foremost defender of Free Press DOJ probe finds Trump regime secretely spied on journalists

The inspector general did not name the two members of Congress whose records were seized, but the report indicates both were Democrats. According to the report, a Democratic committee staffer identified the two members as the potential leakers, “but without providing any evidentiary support for the claim.” This tipster was later found to be of “uncertain credibility” and “unknown reliability,” but prosecutors still relied on the witness in at least two search warrant applications.

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Police in New Orleans scour debris for leads in truck rampage that killed 15, injured 30 three hours into New Year

Police in New Orleans scour debris for leads in truck rampage that killed 15, injured 30 three hours into New Year

FBI officials said they were also looking for any links between the deadly attack and a separate incident on Wednesday in which a Tesla Cybertruck exploded in flames outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House on Jan. 20.

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Kenya’s biosafety authority kicks off campaign for GMO maize against backdrop of steep ignorance

Kenya’s biosafety authority kicks off campaign for GMO maize against backdrop of steep ignorance

NBA Acting Director of Biosafety Research and Compliance Josphat Muchiri confirmed the authority’s readiness for the exercise in the listed counties, adding that the campaign would be expanded to cover all maize-producing regions in Kenya.

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US Treasury accuses Chinese hackers of stealing documents in ‘major incident’

US Treasury accuses Chinese hackers of stealing documents in ‘major incident’

Tom Hegel, a threat researcher at cybersecurity company SentinelOne said the reported security incident “fits a well-documented pattern of operations by PRC-linked groups, with a particular focus on abusing trusted third-party services – a method that has become increasingly prominent in recent years,” he said, using an acronym for the People’s Republic of China.”

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Role of Russian billionaires that finance chemical factories that fuel Russia’s war machine laid bare

Role of Russian billionaires that finance chemical factories that fuel Russia’s war machine laid bare

Peter Harrell, a former senior White House official who worked on Russia sanctions during the war’s first year and is now a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said perhaps it’s time to review those 2022 decisions now that nations that once relied on Ukraine and Russia for wheat and fertilizer have had time to find alternative sources.

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Passenger plane flying to Russia from Azerbaijan crashes in Kazakhstan, many feared dead

Passenger plane flying to Russia from Azerbaijan crashes in Kazakhstan, many feared dead

Azerbaijan Airlines said the Embraer 190 aircraft, with flight number J2-8243, had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya, but had been forced to make an emergency landing approximately 3km (1.8 miles) from the Kazakh city of Aktau.

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