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NPR News: 11-28-2024 5PM EST

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🗓️ 28 November 2024

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0:00.0

This message comes from Indiana University. Indiana University performs breakthrough research every year,

0:06.4

making discoveries that improve human health, combat climate change, and move society forward.

0:12.3

More at IU.edu slash forward.

0:17.1

Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. Tech Giant meta has confirmed that Mark Zuckerberg visited President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-Lago on Wednesday.

0:26.6

As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, the meeting is seen as part of the tech executives' effort to patch up his relationship with Trump.

0:33.4

It was just months ago that President-elect Donald Trump said Mark Zuckerberg could spend time in prison for, as he sees it, plotting against him in the 2020 election.

0:41.3

Since then, Zuckerberg has been on a charm campaign.

0:43.7

After Trump's assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, Zuckerberg praised his fist pumping to the crowd, had private calls with Trump, and now had dinner with Trump after a visit to Mara Lago.

0:53.2

Silicon Valley observers say the meeting could be aimed at trying to ease regulatory pressure on META,

0:58.5

including a federal lawsuit seeking to have META spin off, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

1:03.4

Meta's Instagram and Facebook have for months been de-emphasizing political content,

1:07.5

and during the election allowed deceptive political ads to flood the platform.

1:12.1

Bobby Allen, NPR News.

1:13.9

The Israeli military says it conducted an airstrike in Lebanon today.

1:17.8

It's one of several attacks that could threaten to derail a ceasefire that took effect there yesterday,

1:22.6

as NPR's Lauren Freya reports from Beiruts.

1:25.3

Social media footage shows smoke rising from farmland near Lebanon's

1:29.6

Mediterranean coastal city of Saiden. The Israeli military says it targeted a facility there used by

1:35.5

Hezbollah to store mid-range rockets. It also says it fired separately on suspects in vehicles in

1:42.1

villages near the Israel-Lebanon border. It accuses them of violating

1:46.2

the ceasefire. But Lebanese officials say those are evacuees returning home in their cars,

1:51.9

not fighters. Several people, including journalists, have been wounded by Israeli tank or gunfire.

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