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Month: January 2025

Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories

KCAL, KCBS, CNN By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its US-based fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder. As fire crews scrambled in vain to contain the resulting firestorm, the fact-checking partners, still

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In deleted tweets, Trump’s incoming AI and crypto czar argued Trump Jan. 6 rhetoric not covered by First Amendment

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Tech-entrepreneur David Sacks, the incoming White House czar for AI and cryptocurrency, has a reputation for staunchly defending online free speech, including when he criticized tech companies for silencing conservative voices in the run-up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. But there’s one person whose

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