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…

Opinion | Attention Is the Fuel of American Politics, and Trump Knows It
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Opinion | Attention Is the Fuel of American Politics, and Trump Knows It

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines There’s nothing new about the problem of money in politics. We’ve been warned for decades that America is or is becoming an oligarchy. But something has felt different about the early days of President Trump’s second term, and I think it’s this: Attention,…

Meta to Increase Spending to  Billion This Year in A.I. Push
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Meta to Increase Spending to $65 Billion This Year in A.I. Push

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Mark Zuckerberg spent all of 2024 telling investors that artificial intelligence would be key to the future of his company, Meta. In 2025, he plans to put his money where his mouth is. On Friday, Mr. Zuckerberg said the company expected its capital…

Opinion | ‘Puerility, Provocation and a Strain of Nihilism’: 3 Writers on What Binds Trump and Musk
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Opinion | ‘Puerility, Provocation and a Strain of Nihilism’: 3 Writers on What Binds Trump and Musk

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Bethany McLean, an author of “The Smartest Guys in the Room,” and Nate Silver, the author of “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything” and the newsletter Silver Bulletin, to…

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…

Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg’s Macho Posturing Looks a Lot Like Cowardice
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Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg’s Macho Posturing Looks a Lot Like Cowardice

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines I really, really wanted to like Mark Zuckerberg’s gushing appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast last Friday. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, made some important points about the inadequacies of fact-checking as well as the troubling ways that governments can…

Biden Calls Meta’s Ending of Fact-Checking Program ‘Shameful’
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Biden Calls Meta’s Ending of Fact-Checking Program ‘Shameful’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Biden criticized Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, on Friday for deciding to abandon its fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram, calling it a “shameful” decision that undermines America’s commitment to telling the truth. Responding to a question by a reporter,…

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era
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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Mark Zuckerberg kept the circle of people who knew his thinking small. Last month, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a handful of top policy and communications executives and others to discuss the company’s approach to online speech. He had decided…

What’s Behind Meta’s Makeover Ahead of Trump’s Second Term?
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What’s Behind Meta’s Makeover Ahead of Trump’s Second Term?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For years, Mark Zuckerberg tried to keep his social networks above the fray of partisan politics. And why not? Meta’s flagship apps — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — were rowdy nation-states unto themselves, with billions of users, fragile internal politics, skittish advertisers, perpetually…