Fact checking Trump's claims about the California wildfires
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Fact-checking criticism of California officials over fires
The US president-elect has criticised a top California Democrat for challenges fighting the blazes in Los Angeles.BBC News - 1h -
Trump makes misguided accusations about California water management amid wildfires
President-elect Donald Trump has used the devastating Los Angeles wildfires to revisit a policy disagreement with California Gov.NBC News - 4h -
Zuckerberg met with Trump before ending fact-checking program: GOP senator
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President-elect Trump a day ahead of announcing the social media network will eliminate its fact-checking program to ...The Hill - 1d -
Dems bash Meta for scrapping fact-checks: 'Genuflecting to Donald Trump'
House Democrats are hammering Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, after the company announced the platform-wide end of its fact-checking program. The lawmakers said the shift is part of a larger ...The Hill - 1d -
What we know about the wildfires in California
The Palisades Fire, the Eaton Fire, the Hurst Fire and the Woodley Fire are raging in Los Angeles County and thousands of California residents were forced to evacuate. Ryan Hill, a general manager ...CBS News - 2d -
Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. It is likely to please President-elect ...The New York Times - 2d -
Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. President-elect Trump and his conservative allies said they were pleased.The New York Times - 3d -
Fact-Checking Trump’s Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago
The president-elect made inaccurate claims about his predecessor’s energy policies and repeated familiar falsehoods on a number of topics.The New York Times - 3d -
Meta ends third-party fact-checking scheme as it prepares for return of Trump
Facebook owner to copy community notes pioneered by Elon Musk’s XFinancial Times - 3d
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