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Members of the Hollywood elite are having a collective meltdown in response to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing his company will start embracing free speech on its platforms Facebook, Instagram, and Threads platforms.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in an interview published Friday that “people in the Biden administration” pushed Meta “super hard” to censor users who were posting “true” information about the coronavirus vaccines. “These people from the Biden administration would call up our team and scream at them and curse,” Zuckerberg said.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is terminating its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs effective immediately, and will instead build initiatives “that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background.” This step continues Zuckerberg’s attempt to extend an olive branch to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. 

A massive data breach of location data company Gravy Analytics has exposed how popular apps across the Android and Apple platforms are being exploited, often without the knowledge of users or app developers, to collect sensitive location information on an immense scale.

A coalition of more than 70 “fact checking” organizations have penned an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, expressing their outrage over Meta’s decision to move away from biased left-wing “fact check” organizations and toward crowdsourced moderation on its platforms in the United States.

By the end of 2024, domestic spending on streaming services collapsed from an average of $55.04 per month to just $42.38.

The Disney Grooming Syndicate has so woke-raped “Star Wars,” it’s latest streaming series, “Skeleton Crew,” flopped without making a sound.

Elon Musk said his SpaceX company will provide free Starlink terminals to the Los Angeles areas affected by the raging and catastrophic wildfires. The satellite internet service will help restore communication in areas devastated by the ongoing fires.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has come under fire from both the “Facebook Supreme Court” and its own employees following Zuckerberg’s decision this week to embrace free speech on his heavily censored platforms.

An Airbnb customer claims the company refused to rebook her Los Angeles stay amid raging wildfires that spread due to extreme winds, causing historic destruction of homes and displacing tens of thousands of people. According to the Silicon Valley giant, the wildfires raging throughout Los Angeles are not a “major disruptive event.” The post prompted many to share their own Airbnb horror stories.

NASA’s leading center for scientific innovation in fields including robotic planetary exploration, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has been temporarily closed due to the approaching Eaton wildfire in Southern California.

Google has joined the ranks of major tech companies supporting President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, donating $1 million to the inaugural fund.

As devastating wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles County, fire-tracking app Watch Duty has added 600,000 users in the last 24 hours seeking real-time updates and critical information. The app, run by a nonprofit, relies on hundreds of volunteers including active and retired firefighters to provide accurate and timely information.

Mark Zuckerberg’s recent announcement that Meta will be making major changes to its content moderation policies and practices on Facebook and Instagram, included his blockbuster plan the eliminate the company’s biased third-party “fact checkers.” Breitbart News has compiled some of the worst moments of Facebook’s “fact checker” era to show how the biased system was used to censor conservatives.

Mark Zuckerberg stunned the world when he announced this week that Meta would embrace free speech on its platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. But to hold the billionaire to his promises of removing bias and censorship from these platforms, we must first acknowledge the terrible levels of censorship faced by conservatives on Zuckerberg’s platforms since 2016. Here are six particularly egregious examples from Zuckerberg’s inglorious reign as the internet’s arbiter of truth.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the company will be relocating its content moderation and trust and safety teams from California to Texas as part of a broader effort to promote free expression and address the extreme leftist bias introduced into its content moderation process at the hands of its woke Silicon Valley workforce.

Ann Altman, the sister of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has filed a lawsuit alleging he regularly sexually abused her for several years starting in their childhood.

CalFire, the California Department of Forestry & Fire Prevention, has released a 3D interactive map that offers a detailed look at the multiple fires raging around Los Angeles. The map shows the perimeter of the Palisades fire and evacuation zones for multiple other fires in Los Angeles.

Don’t buy the fake headlines. The Golden Globes might have climbed out of its dismal 2021 and 2023 ratings, but the award show is still down 45 percent in the ratings compared to just five years ago.

Conservatives cheered Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for curtailing his company’s longstanding position of censoring political speech. 

A first of its kind, behind the scenes documentary on the work that goes into being the first lady has landed a $40 million distribution deal. Melania Trump’s concept, which centers around her life and work as she reenters the White House, kicked off a bidding war between major Hollywood studios and resulted in a blockbuster deal with Amazon.

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the CEO of fintech company Klarna, has shared his apprehensions about the swift advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, which he believes could soon be capable of performing his entire job. Siemiatkowski writes that he feels “gloomy” over the fact AI has made him replaceable.

John Deere has announced plans to introduce a range of self-driving farm and work vehicles, including tractors, dump trucks, and even a robotic lawnmower. The company plans a fully-autonomous corn and soybean farming system by 2030.

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg handed the corporate media its most humiliating defeat since, well, since Donald Trump won reelection on November 5th.

Mark Zuckerberg has announced major changes to Meta’s content moderation policies and practices on Facebook and Instagram, citing a desire to embrace free speech and avoid censorship. Zuckerberg’s changes begin with scrapping Facebook’s third-party “fact check” system which is notorious for its leftist bias.

Attempt to latch onto TikTok trend sees sex with “young girls” lyrics as gov tries to tell public it’s taking sexual exploitation seriously. 

Dana White, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and ally of President-elect Donald Trump, has joined the board of directors for Meta, the parent company of Facebook.

Bill Belichick drew on childhood inspiration when making his first post on X Monday, and it seems to have worked perfectly.

In the wake of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, social media platforms are facing challenges in moderating the influx of content from leftists praising and glorifying his alleged assassin, Luigi Mangione.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has made a personal contribution of $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund. Cook, who Trump famously nicknamed “Tim Apple,” is the latest in a long line of tech lords bending the knee to Trump in hopes of currying favor with the new administration.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar wore Meta smart glasses while carried out his terrorist attack during the early hours of New Year’s Day in New Orleans, killing 14 and wounding 35 others, the FBI says.

In a move to “maximize unregretted user-seconds,” Elon Musk has unveiled plans for an algorithm change on his social media platform X that he claims will curb excessive negativity. Critics contend the algorithm changes will have troubling outcomes like censoring criticism of the FBI.

A Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence (AI) expert experienced some alarming technological problems when his driverless Waymo ride to the airport nearly caused him to miss his flight after it began driving in circles.

Filming has began on a feature length documentary film directed by “Rush Hour” franchise director Brett Ratner, set for a global theatrical and streaming release, that will deliver what Amazon Prime Studios called an “unprecedented behind-the-scenes look” at the life of First Lady Melania Trump.

As we head into 2025, here are some simple but effective cybersecurity resolutions you should embrace to avoid suffering the same fate as the many Americans hit by hacking, phishing, and identity theft.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is betting heavily on AI to drive user engagement on its social media platforms in the coming years. The company envisions human users engaging and sharing content with AI just like they do with friends and family on Facebook and Instagram.