Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 - Meta scraps fact-checking; Cannon blocks Trump report; Minneapolis police reforms; JAMA study; Medical debt off credit report

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today’s Headlines: Meta announced it’s ending its fact-checking program, replacing it with community notes and undoing limits on political content in feeds. Meanwhile, Dana White, UFC president and Trump ally, joined Meta’s board. Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocked Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s classified documents and election interference cases, pending appeal. Trump criticized former President Carter during his press conference and hinted at military action to control the Panama Canal and Greenland. Donald Trump Jr. visited Greenland as a private citizen but received no official meetings, while Greenland reaffirmed it’s not for sale. Minneapolis and the DOJ reached a consent decree to implement mandatory police reforms after George Floyd's killing. A new study found fewer than 0.1% of teens receive gender-affirming care, despite 3% identifying as transgender in a recent CDC survey. The Biden administration announced plans to remove medical debt from credit reports and eliminate $15 billion in medical debt, expected to improve credit scores for over 15 million Americans. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: NBC News: Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X's WA Post: UFC's Dana White joins Meta board MSNBC: Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocks the release of Jack Smith’s final report AP News: Takeaways from Trump's Mar-a-Lago press conference AP News: Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Greenland with a message from his dad: 'We’re going to treat you well' WA Post: Years after Floyd’s death, Minneapolis and DOJ agree to police changes NPR: Few transgender minors receive gender-affirming care medicines, study finds Whitehouse: FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Final Rule Removing Medical Debt from All Credit Reports | The White House Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Bridget Schwartz and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2	Today is Wednesday, January 8th, and you're listening to the morning announcements
0:35.3	presented by Betches Media.
0:37.3	I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the morning announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown
0:41.1	of the headlines that isn't a megaphone for the loudest voices, but a magnifying glass
0:45.5	for the most important news.
0:50.3	Mark Zuckerberg and Meta dominated the conversation yesterday, and not just because of their own algorithm.
0:56.5	After Zuckerberg posted a very human-seeming video announcement that the company is ending its
1:01.4	fact-checking program and replacing it with community notes, just like on X.
1:06.2	The platform is also undoing changes that had reduced the amount of political content in
1:10.3	user feeds on both Instagram and Facebook.
1:12.6	He specifically cited gender and immigration as topics that led us to a cultural tipping point of prioritizing free speech,
1:19.6	that fact-checkers have become too politically biased, and the systems that the company had created to moderate content were making too many mistakes. He also said that what remains of the trust and safety and content moderation team
1:31.4	will be moved from California to Texas.
1:34.4	This announcement came shortly after it was reported that a longtime ally of Donald Trump
1:39.0	and president of the UFC, Dana White, will be joining Mehta's board of directors.
1:44.2	Can't wait to see the whole gang ringside at the next fight night.
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