How Misinformation and Partisan ‘New Media’ Changed a California Town
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How Misinformation and Partisan ‘New Media’ Changed a California Town

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines With its horse-trodden roads, endless fields of almond blossoms and cowboy heritage, the 20,000 person town of Oakdale, Calif., fits the American West of imagination. And for decades, its media diet was classically all-American, too. Nightly news broadcasts played on living room televisions….

Trump’s Tariff on Cheap Chinese Imports Will Cost Big Tech Billions
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Trump’s Tariff on Cheap Chinese Imports Will Cost Big Tech Billions

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The expansion of the loophole for tariff-free shipments of goods nearly a decade ago gave rise to Temu, Shein and other low-cost online retailers offering items straight from Chinese factories at unfathomable discounts. It also unleashed something else — a cascade of billions…

At Trial, Mark Zuckerberg Avoids Explaining Takeovers of Instagram and WhatsApp
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At Trial, Mark Zuckerberg Avoids Explaining Takeovers of Instagram and WhatsApp

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In a second day on the stand of a landmark antitrust trial, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, said he bought Instagram and WhatsApp because it was hard to build new apps and dodged questions about whether he was trying to snuff…

Meta’s Antitrust Trial Begins as FTC Argues Company Built Social Media Monopoly
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Meta’s Antitrust Trial Begins as FTC Argues Company Built Social Media Monopoly

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Federal Trade Commission on Monday accused Meta of creating a monopoly that squelched competition by buying start-ups that stood in its way, kicking off a landmark antitrust trial that could dismantle a social media empire that has transformed how the world connects…

Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
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Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former employee who published an explosive, tell-all memoir, as an arbitrator temporarily prohibited the author from promoting or further distributing copies. Sarah Wynn-Williams last week released “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed,…

Meta Said to Explore Moving Where It Is Incorporated
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Meta Said to Explore Moving Where It Is Incorporated

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is considering changing where it is incorporated from Delaware to another state, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The company is looking at Texas and a handful of other states, said the people,…

Meta Agrees to Pay Trump  Million to Settle His Lawsuit
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Meta Agrees to Pay Trump $25 Million to Settle His Lawsuit

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Meta said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay President Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed over the suspension of his Facebook and Instagram accounts after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. The move was a significant…

Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
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Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked or removed posts from two abortion pill providers. Instagram also suspended the accounts of several abortion pill providers and hid the providers from appearing in search and recommendations. The actions ramped up in the last two…

Health Secretary Defends Biden’s Covid Vaccine Mandates and Social Media Efforts
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Health Secretary Defends Biden’s Covid Vaccine Mandates and Social Media Efforts

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Xavier Becerra, the man President Biden chose to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, does not want to talk about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man President-elect Donald J. Trump has chosen to “go wild” in reshaping it. Nor does he…