tim: joel kaplan might be someone with the republican party ties, but the republican party he was a partf is a far cry from the trump republican party and in fact, many folks in the republican party criticize that administration now and i wonder if you think there will be any tension there, if there is tension there and if it represents a disconnect between meta platforms and the republican party of today. kurt: possibly but every party will be dealing with this, their more traditional folks might not be the maga trump candidate party that we are starting to see emerge and take off. now it's closer, right? kaplan will be closer in alignment on those types of issues, so maybe that helps, but i think the key here is really the role of mark zuckerberg. for the last four years he's been saying i want to be hands off. this policy enough is not for me. i want to focus on product and business. now he's at mar-a-lago, calling trump personally. i think that mark zuckerberg will likely handle the lion's share of the relationship with trump himself, letting kaplan deal with all the stuff on capitol

minister and global head of policy since 2018 will be stepping down and replaced by former staffer joel kaplan. kaplan served under george w. bush and appeared with vice president-elect vance in december. >>> and more issues on the hack attack. the chinese sponsored hackers were able to access classified documents on servers and drafts and notes and communications. the agency is assessing what was taken. notes that hackers did not access the email system or classified systems. frank. >> thank you, pope ippa. >>> turning back to the markets. the dollar close to a two-year high. let's now bring in doug bonaparth. he is a member of the council. good morning. happy new year. >> good morning. happy new year. >> the s&p down 3% over the last month. in your mind, is this a viable dip? should investors be loading up on stocks down on a sign of trouble in the new year? >> i think we are seeing volatility here. 3% dip. not screaming buy. you should buy. i think we're in urgatory with the market. >> i remember a couple of years ago with the t.i.n.a. trade. remember the money in the money markets? $6.85 t

now uh, joel kaplan, i actually also appeared on fox and friends. that's a show that donald trump supposedly watches in order to explain these policy changes at match off. there is also dana white, known as a key, trump ally, and the president of the ultimate fighting championship r u. s. c. he has also been recently appointed to the board. so perhaps more than worries about a lying about metal aligning itself to the incoming leadership of the united states . i think what we're in fact seeing is evidence that that is in right what is happening. so how will this new community notes model work of the well, i think here uh we can see that marks docker bird has been inspired by the long boss. now, you know, on most golf course is the owner of. 5 x slash twitter and himself saw a key, trump surrogate. so you know, and boss has also been relying on community notes instead of fact checkers. so basically relying on the user community to fly got posts that may be potentially misleading. so was dr. burke is doing away with this fact checking up or writers and

we were starting to talk about the change at the top of meta, nick clegg replaced by republican joel kaplanin roger mcnamee, one of facebook�*s earliest investors, after those brief technical issues. you were just talking about the political impact of meta, so do you think underjoel kaplan, a republican, as we've explained, there will be less moderation of political content? what are your thoughts on that? will be focus be on a certain type of political content, do you believe? i political content, do you believe?— political content, do you believe? ~ ~ , believe? i think the key thing to understand _ believe? i think the key thing to understand about - believe? i think the key thing to understand about this - believe? i think the key thing i to understand about this change is that nick clegg was brought on to solve a political problem in europe after the cambridge analytical scandal that took place in the uk. hisjob was analytical scandal that took place in the uk. his job was to make sure that meta didn't get into any long—term trouble in europe. he clearly has not got into long—term trou

he is saying that joel kaplan is clearly the the right person at the right moment, at the right time.s we know, was a deputy chief of staff to george w. bush, so maybe the right person when we think about leading the person forward with a republican administration. ashley: all right. terrific stuff, taylor. thank you so much for running through those individual stocks. we appreciate it. >>> let's take a look at the big board. as we can see, the dow up now over 200 points. again with, it was down 150 at the close yesterday, so we've made that up and then some, up about half a percent. system of the dow winners, let's take a look at those. nvidia, all the big names, of course. there's amazon, financials, jpmorgan chase, ibm and goldman sachs. those technology no -- are among the dow winners. the s&p 500 winners, western digital, nvidia again, some energy plays. nrg energy. but there you have it, amd also among the winners on the s&p, up more than 2%. and in the nasdaq, marvell technology, i believe des moines r. barton talked about -- d.r. barton the talked about that stock yesterday. a

if you joined us at the top of the hour, joel kaplan one of meta's big bosses now came on the program7:00 this morning, mark zuckerberg dropped a 6 or 7 minute videoed talked about the changes meta is making to policies. replace the third party fact-checking program. they have been doing that since 2016. lift restrindses on certain topics. the automated systems will focus on illegal and highly severe violations. just the big stuff. and the last point removing reduction of political content; in other words, what they're trying to do is try to open it up to more free speech. >> ainsley: yeah. mark zuckerberg has been meeting with donald trump. he said a while back that they were feeling pressure from the biden administration and then they realized they were making a lot of mistakes and they were listening to the administration and not what the people wanted. and they also experienced a lot during covid. with people complaining about what was being posted. what was being taken down just because facebook or meta didn't agree with it. he said we were making too many mistakes. we were frust

their new head of policy, joel kaplan, spoke about the company's evolution on "fox & friends." >> there'suestion that there has been a change over the last pour years. we -- four years. we saw a lot of societal and political pressure if all in the direction of more content the moderation, more censorship, and we've got a real opportunity now. we've got a new administration and a new president coming in who are big defenders of free expression, and that makes a difference. we're pretty focused on the future and the opportunity we have right now with the changes we're making today to really open up the space for debate, expression -- lauren: kaplan said elon musk has had an incredibly important role on getting people focused on free expression, and meta's goal, it's really about reestablishing trust for their 3.2 billion users across their platforms. trust social media. i spoke with him after his "fox & friends" interview, and he said, look, the company is so excited to work with the trump administration because, quoting, president biden had no interest many dealing with ceos. often the ton

number one, joel kaplan announced that on fox news. again, everything very public, unsubtle.hink what meta is doing here, and i think they would perhaps admit to that. i don't think they would run away from that. and the new york times reporting that the trump administration got a heads up about this policy shift beforehand. so, again, it seems to be part of this larger, very public effort to curry favor. yeah. >> and kaplan did. he acknowledged that it was in part because of this change in administration that they are making these changes. he said that over the last four years, the company feels like it's experienced pressure to crack down on more content, and that the trump administration offers them an opportunity to pull back a bit there. so he is acknowledging it. i will note, too, the company announced yesterday that it is adding three new board members, including ufc ceo dana white, who we know is a trump supporter. he was stumping for trump on the campaign trail. so it does feel like this broader shift at the company completely unsubtle. >> all right, clare duffy, tha

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meta�*s founder and ceo mark zuckerberg and his new political policy chief joel kaplan have couched this company�*s platforms. the internal materials that i obtained include a long list of different hypothetical examples of user speech that is now permitted under the revised rules, and what this reveals is that the policy does not seem to be aimed at so much allowing for lively or dissenting political views but denigrating, dehumanising, slurring different ethnic, religious, racial groups — which is a form of speech but is not really in line with how the company had publicly characterised it. i think what a lot of users of x, formerly twitter, saw the changes implemented by elon musk, the new algorithm, less fact checking — it was visible, you could tell that there was different content popping up than what there was before. what kind of impact do you think we could see on facebook or instagram now that the company has, you know, not only may be loosened its content moderation but, of course, it also axed its fact checking department altogether. the examples i reported stand up clearly.

of the formally deftly promised of the uk, nikole, and he has been replaced by his number two, joel kaplanave been speaking to david gilbert covering misinformation and online extremism. david, i would like to start on a practical note. when you heard this announcement from meta it would do away with these fact checkers on facebook, instagram, threads, what came to mind? what was your reaction?— to mind? what was your reaction? . _, , reaction? having covered this information _ reaction? having covered this information particularly - reaction? having covered this information particularly on . information particularly on facebook for the last decade i was flabbergasted. i could not believe they had taken this decision, having built up the system over the course of the last eight years since the 2016 election to throw it all away and adopt a community notes model which has been seen on x not to work very well, was just really surprising and it was something that weil had been signalled in some respects by mark zuckerberg and comments he made last year where he said he was done apologising, t

here is more from joel kaplan, and then i have a comment. >> we have a new administration and president coming in, big defenders of free expression and that makes a difference. when you have an administration pushing for censorship, it is open season for other governments that don't have p protection of first amendment. we will work with president trump to push back on that kind of thing. there is real opportunity here with president trump coming into office and his commitment to free expression to get back to values and provide space for debate. there is opportunity to work with new administration on free expression and on american leadershipship and technology and innovation. president trump is focused on making sure we maintain u.s. competitiveness and leadership on technology. things like ai, those are super important to our company and industry and we look forward to advance those goals. >> brian: going back to joe rogan podcast. rogan brought it up as nonsequittor out of nowhere. to a degree, guilt for 400 million in zuckerberg-bucks and putting that mannequin in the white house f

joel kaplan now has to deal policy. jonathan: the winds of change. we will see a lot more this.inister justin trudeau resigning as head of the liberal party after more than nine years in power. >> i have always been driven by my love for canada and canadians deserve a real choice in the next election. it has become obvious to me with the internal battles that i cannot be the one to carry the liberal standard into the next election. jonathan: 20 points behind the conservatives. that choice might turn out to be a big change. there's been a major change. go back to the g7 photo in the south of italy eight months ago. annmarie, you were there. how much has changed in the last six months? annmarie: i was reporting live from bari. this was a lame-duck lineup except for giorgia meloni, who basically greeted everyone. it felt like they were going there to kiss the ring of this new leader of europe. emmanuel macron is there but he's been dealt a huge blow domestically. she's the only one left in the list of leaders. jonathan: governor carney might be interested in throwing his hat in the

joel kaplan was a republican lobbyist for meta and now he's had a policy replacing somebody left-leaning. yesterday they announced a no way, longtime alley of donald trump to the board of directors of the company. what does it tell you about all that's going on from a business perspective ? >> if you look at the stock. it has been bottom left, bottom right since it went public in 2012. a company that will do over $150 billion in ad revenue. 96% of total sales comes from advertising. at the end of the day, advertisers will have the final say on what they think they want to have their heads next to one these platforms. is he thinking about it from a political standpoint? sure. the sec has a lawsuit trying to break up this company from a monopoly standpoint and they have a disproportionate amount of ad sales that exist on the internet. obviously google is there bigger competitive in google is being sued by the ftc. it is political and i know you have been focused on this. think of these tech ceos who have individually donated to the trump inauguration fund, done it individually, $1 million.

social media giant meta is replacing its president of global affairs nick clegg with his deputy joel kaplane with staunch republican ties. kaplan has been advocate for more speech from across the aisle on the platform just weeks after donald trump are turned to the white house. a race to attain talent may have prompted london-based businesses to offer more flexibility to staff. the results from the work from home surveyed by bloomberg intelligence shows that 89% of london-based employers are amenable to remote working, more than peers in other european cities. let's get more details with our senior analyst for real estate at bloomberg intelligence. good to have you with me around the table. one of the conclusions from the survey results, perhaps not really what we would expect by 2024. >> after the pandemic, you would've thought many more people would be coming back to the office. if you look at the number of people who get one to four days, i.e. p are hybrid, they are not fully remote, it is still around 70%. in most of european cities and in new york as well. asia is a slightly different.

he also just hired a new global policy director, joel kaplan, a republican effort to who served as bush's deputy chief of staff. a longtime critic of the meta fact checking of political content. he added a new member to the meta-board of directors. dana white pete rose a longtime trump supporter and friend and spoke at the rnc. that hiring did not sit well with one of the facebook employees who criticized it and found the free speech platform deleted their comments according to the reporting. it seems obvious way you make these moves to curry favor with the big guy and his partisans. it's worth recalling my meta had to institute its former fact-checking policy in the first place. it's been written out of history. they didn't do the fact- checking stuff out of nowhere. they didn't because mark zuckerberg woke up and said we should fact check. no. let's remember the history. they did it because starting in 2016, the platform that zuckerberg founded, facebook, was used to execute an at the end genocide of the minority by the military company of myanmar. tens of thousands of people were murde

scams mark zuckerberg announceded in a video posted to instagram meta new head of global affairs joel kaplan tells fox first only tv interview since take job blamed president biden and administration for trying to control content on social media. >> when you have a u.s. president administration, that is pushing for censorship, it makes it open season for other governments around the world, that won't have proekts first amendment to put pressure on u.s. companies we are going to work with president trump to push back on that kind of thing around the world. >> adding dana white two others to its board uscceo a close friend of president-elect trump with additions of kaplan white plus changes to content moderations meta a signaling a shift to more expression legals censorship on its platforms. maria: that is good we like that that is good grady thank you grady trimble, mark that is all you want from reaction. mark: great i mean look the tide turned when you think of like all these big tech companies not just meta but long been some of the biggest donors, of the democrats over the course of the l

facebook and instagram owner meta has just named joel kaplan as its new chief global affairs officer.aplan was the white house chief of staff for former president george w bush from 2006 to 2009, and has worked with meta since 2011. the change in leadership comes as meta plans to build more relationships with president elect donald trump. employees have accused kaplan of not maintaining political neutrality and bending rules for some republican leaders. >> 847 now the new year can be a great time for a fresh start, and if you're looking for a way to detox and recover after the holidays, taking part in dry january may sound good to you. dry january is a challenge where people choose not to drink alcohol. the first month of the year research from heineken beers and oxford university show members of generation z who are above the legal drinking age feel the most pressure to drink alcohol, even when they do not want to do so, still feel a need to justify their choice of a low or no alcohol beverage, particularly when they're in social situations. researchers say herd mentality may help. 3

caroline: he was interesting that this was the first announcement coming from joel kaplan, who is thes officer. we are not only getting a more right-leaning global affairs officer, but also dana white coming to the board. >> that's right. a no white was a very vocal trump supporter. -- dana white was a very vocal trump supporter. a good fit, because, you know, dana white and mark zuckerberg have a pre-existing relationship. they share a very strong interest in the same sport. in a lot of ways it makes sense for mark and what he is trying to do with that relationship with trump. migration from the fact checking team from california to texas, as you mentioned, is an interesting 1-2. i think the bigger question is, will there be a broader pullback at meta and some of the social media platforms with this incoming administration across all content moderation? will there be a pullback in the monitoring of disturbing content? i think that is the broader question to ask. caroline: that leads us to our next conversation. as meta pares back it's fact checkers there is exclusive reporting showin

an op-ed high lighting meta's recent conservative changes including dana white to the board and joel kaplane chief global affairs officers. meta put an end to the fact checking program and dei initiatives, donating $11 m$1 millionto trump's inaug. miranda devine writes about what about $450 million in zucker bucks he donated to help democrats. likely it changed the course of history, hiring a few trump allies and flying to mar-a-lago to kiss the ring is nowhere near enough. i spoke about the same issue with trump media ceo devin nunes on sunday morning futures. here's what he said. >> if zuckerberg is having a mea culpa moment that's great. let's remember, he spent $450 million of his own money to sway the 2020 election in favor of the left. so if he wants to do a mea culpa i think he should spend 450, maybe spend interest on top of that, maybe $550 million and he ought to help companies that are out there like fox news, truth social, now twitter with x, rumble, that have been fighting the censorship every single day, we wake up and fight the censorship. he ought to take that money and join

the former uk deputy prime minister joined facebook/mets ta a couple years being replaced by joel kaplanominent conservative voice within the organization. he served as deputy chief of staff for former president george w. bush several years ago. and has been working at facebook and meta for some time now. he's going to be taking over this new role as president of global affairs. of course, happening just ahead of president-elect trump's inauguration in just a few weeks here. >> wasn't nick kleg the leader of the green's party? >> a liberal democrat. yeah. >> steve, thank you. >> thank you. >> steve kovach. >>> that's how big tech is gearing up for trump. brian is gearing up for "power lunch." ote join mr. sullivan on th her side of this quick break. stay with us. there are some feelings you can get with any sportsbook. ohhh! the highs! no, no, no. the no, no, noooos - oooooooo! the oh, oh, ohhhhs! now whatcha wanna do with this? but the feeling that, no matter what, you're taken care of. ohhh, i just earned a hotel suite! hee! you only get that here. at the sportsbook born in vegas, wher

this is zuckerberg's second key conservative appointment in a week after selecting joel kaplan who criticized the technology giant's censorship practices to serve as new head of global policy, kaplan is a long time executive and former senior advisor to president george w. bush. interesting developments here, mark. your reaction to what's going on at meta with these conservative appointments. >> we've seen an overall about face across all of tech. i mean, you look at the washington post as an example. they didn't endorse a presidential candidate, they want to hire more conservative writers, so you've seen guys like jeff bezos, you've seen mark zuckerberg, you've seen all these tech leaders go down to mar-a-lago to talk with trump. i think a lot of them probably want some of what u.k elon muskd tesla got out of the relationship with trump. the stock performed very, very well last year. i think a lot of these companies overall are realizing they can no longer just be a mouthpiece for the democrats, they actually have to run good, solid, high growth, profitable businesses and having good minds o

. >> newly appointed chief global affairs officer joel kaplan a long time republican lobbyist for metahave a pushing for censorship it makes it open season for other governments around the world that don't have the protections of first amendment to really put pressure on u.s. companies. >> in another move to the right, meta also announced that ufc-ceo dana white will join its board. white is a close friend of president-elect trump. bret, back to you. >> bret: max, thank you. pentagon officials say they have transferred 11 yemeni plenty to oman this week. held for two decades without charge at the u.s. naval base in guantanamo bay, cuba. the latest and biggest push by the biden administration to try to clear guantanamo of the last remaining detainees who were never charged with a crime. the latest release brings the total number of men detained at guantanamo to 15. it held about 800 at its peak. also tonight the biden administration is negotiating with the taliban to exchange americans detained in afghanistan for at least one high profile prisoner alleged to be an usama bin laden associ

>> meta recently elevated former white house deputy chief of staff to president george w bush, joel kaplany chief. he went on fox and friends to echo his boss's praise of, quote, free expression and the incoming trump administration. and on monday, meta appointed this man to its board of directors. if you don't recognize him, his name is dana white. he's the ufc ceo. he happens to be a close friend of donald trump. and if all of that doesn't have you worried enough, zuckerberg also said that meta will be moving its content review team from the state of california to the state of texas to, quote, help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content. end quote. joining our conversation, president of media matters for america angelo carusone is back and professor of history at new york university. ruth ben-ghiat is here. ruth, i start with you. >> yes. well, you know, if you want to please donald trump, you will do two things which mark zuckerberg is doing. you will give money, lots of it to donald trump. and he's donating a million to the inauguration. and you will also

somebody who has long standing republican ties, a different individual instead of nick -- now it's joel kaplanorning on fox news talking about these changes that facebook is making. and facebook is framing them as basically a push for free speech, talking about the end of censorship. we will see over the course of the next few months once mr. trump is inaugurated for his second term. >> hallie jackson following all that. don't miss hallie on "hallie jackson now" streaming live starting at 5:00 p.m. eastern on nbc news now. >>> we're digging into growing concerns over bird flu after the first death in the u.s. linked to the virus. what everyone needs to know. you're watching "nbc news daily." >>> we are also streaming for free 24/7 on nbc news now. you can watch us wherever you stream live any place you get content, including youtube, roku, and all the rest on your screen. you'll find them in cities, towns and suburbs all across america. millions of americans who have medicare and medicaid, but may be missing benefits they could really use. extra benefits they may be eligible to receive at no e

joel kaplan was a republican lobbyist for meta. he's now head of policy. yesterday they announced dana white of the ufc, long time ally of donald trump, to the board of directors of the company. what does it tell you about all that's going on here from a business perspective? >> listen, if you just look at the stock, this is a 1.5 trillion market cap company. it's been bottom left, upper right since 2012. this company will do over $150 billion in ad revenue. 96% of their total sales come from advertising. at the end of the day advertisers will have the final say on what they think they want to have their ads next to on these sorts of platforms. is he thinking about it from a political standpoint? sure. the fcc has a lawsuit trying to break up this company from a monopoly standpoint and they have a disproportionate amount of the ad sales that exist on the internet. obviously google is their biggest competitor relating to that and google is being sued by the ftc and the like. this is clearly political and i know you've been really focused on this. think abou

this is joel kaplan. >> we got a lot of pressure around covid in particular, to take down more content and satire about the pandemic and about vaccines. so we did experience that kind of pressure. the decisions we made ultimately were our own, but there is a real opportunity here with president trump coming into office, with his commitment to free expression, for us to get back to those values. >> he mentioned the covid vaccine and covid. this is a lot about that, right? the right wants to be able to spread misinformation about the next pandemic unfettered. >> notice what he didn't say in that ". he said it was their indecision. he said we got pressure from who, and why, he has no evidence that there was actually treasure. he said it was their own decision and the reality is, when it comes to helping public health, there has long been a doctrine, even under the first amendment, that you can't have the type of misinformation that is going to hurt people's health or hurt the public health. do you want platforms to be giving misinformation about what medicine someone should take for heart

they have appointed republican joel kaplan as the new head of global policy, and they also named ufc ceo and staunch trump ally dana white to meta's board. white is someone who was at trump's convention earlier last summer and also at his victory party, and is very close to the incoming president and and zuckerberg spoke a little bit in an interview he had this week with joe rogan about what he looks forward to in the trump administration. take a listen to what he said. >> i do think that the american technology industry is a bright spot in the american economy. i think it's a strategic advantage for the united states that we have a lot of the strongest companies in the world, and i think it should be part of the u.s .'s strategy going forward to defend that. and and it's one of the things that i'm optimistic about with president trump is i think he just wants america to win. >> of course, all of these moves come just months after donald trump threatened mark zuckerberg with life in prison if he didn't change the company in ways that appease trump. and now, after trump wins election,

>> yeah, i really want to caution zuckerberg and joel kaplan, the george former george w bush adviserfacebook, now talked about mimicking what they're building after elon musk's ex. and if anyone has been on x for the past two, two and a half years, i don't think you think that's a successful platform. their communities notes program. this is, i think, a shocking stat. only 9% of the community notes that are are created are actually posted. that's because the concept is you want different people agreeing on the note. well, guess what? in a highly polarized society, in a highly polarized world, people don't agree on a lot and their interest is to defend themselves and their beliefs. journalists act in a different interest, right? the interest of the truth. and even if you would say, well, journalists, in the case of politifact, they're acting in their interest to get paid by facebook. well, then you would at least agree that journalists would want to be right, because if they were wrong over and over again, facebook would say, well, we're not going to pay you. so i didn't have to be an

as meta's new chief of global affairs, joel kaplan explained to fox news. >> so somebody can write a note and then the way it works is different. different people on the platform can sort of vote on that note. and if you get people who usually disagree, who all say, yeah, that sounds right, then that note gets put on the on the post and people see it. >> mark zuckerberg is now following in the footsteps of musk, who has dismantled fact checking teams and replaced them with user generated community notes. a musk critic and anti-hate advocate says zuckerberg and musk are being irresponsible in making community notes. the only way to guard against false claims and disinformation. >> this is going to create a tidal wave of unchallenged lies, increasing the spread of hate, threatening the integrity of our communities, our democracy, and potentially harming public health and our kids. >> this comes as zuckerberg, like musk, who is now a key ally of president elect donald trump, seems to be engaging in an ideological pivot to the right in american politics. >> this is not the guy who presen

he announced yesterday that he is stepping down and handing the reins to his deputy, joel kaplan, who is one of the company's most prominent republicans. kaplan has been working on policy at meta since 2011, but prior to that he held several key roles, including deputy chief of staff of policy in the george w. bush white house. they also announced that taking over for his current role, vp of global policy is kevin martin, another longtime meta exec who was formerly chairman of the fcc under bush. and we know this, of course, all comes as meta is preparing for a second trump presidency. and as ceo mark zuckerberg has sought to cozy up to trump, we saw zuckerberg visiting trump in mar-a-lago after the election, meta announced it's going to be donating $1 million to trump's inaugural fund, and zuckerberg has said that he wants to take an active role in tech policy discussions with the trump white house. and so it may have been a decision that kaplan was better positioned to navigate a republican controlled white house and congress than his predecessor clegg was. >> it may just be good bu

you know, a few in the past few weeks, zuckerberg pushed basically nick clegg out and appointed joel kaplanthey're doing hits on fox news. they're going on joe rogan. so this is again, part of this concerted effort. but i do think what you're getting at, you do see that tension. there is this tension between free speech. i think everyone wants free speech, but also the ramifications that come with free speech. and if you're spreading misinformation, particularly during the pandemic, about life saving vaccines, you know, how do you if you're mark zuckerberg, how do you manage that? do you let your algorithms amplify that speech? do you let it run rampant when it has real world consequences? meta. in the past, you know, maybe 6 or 7 years, eight years, they have decided that that's dangerous. and they had ad systems in place to limit misinformation, to fact check important things. and now you're seeing with donald trump coming in office, that they're really throwing away a lot of the work they had done in this area. and it's obviously impossible to ignore the fact that donald trump hates fact

to trump's inaugural fund, increasing its outreach to conservative media, appointing republican joel kaplanhead of global policy, and naming ufc ceo and trump ally dana white to meta's board. >> i watched their news conference and i thought it was a very good news conference. >> i think they've honestly i think they've come a long way. meta. facebook. i think they've come a long way. i watched it, the man was very impressive. >> speaking on comedian joe rogan's podcast earlier this week, zuckerberg talked about what he is hoping to get from a trump administration. >> i do think that the american technology industry is a bright spot in the american economy. >> i think it's a strategic advantage for the united states that we have a lot of the strongest companies in the world, and i think it should be part of the u.s .'s strategy going forward to defend that. and and it's one of the things that i'm optimistic about with president trump is i think he just wants america to win. >> all of these changes come after trump threatened mark zuckerberg with life in prison if he didn't make changes to hi

as meta's new chief of global affairs, joel kaplan, explained to fox news. >> so somebody can write a note and then the way it works is different. different people on the platform can sort of vote on that note. and if you get people who usually disagree, who all say, yeah, that sounds right, then that note gets put on the on the post and people see it. >> mark zuckerberg is now following in the footsteps of musk, who has dismantled fact checking teams and replaced them with user generated community notes. a musk critic and anti-hate advocate says zuckerberg and musk are being irresponsible in making community notes. the only way to guard against false claims and disinformation. >> this is going to create a tidal wave of unchallenged lies, increasing the spread of hate, threatening the integrity of our communities, our democracy, and potentially harming public health and our kids. >> this comes as zuckerberg, like musk, who is now a key ally of president elect donald trump, seems to be engaging in an ideological pivot to the right in american politics. >> this is not the guy who presen

as meta's new chief of global affairs, joel kaplan, explained to fox news. >> so somebody can write aote and then the way it works is different. different people on the platform can sort of vote on that note. >> and if you get people who usually disagree, who all say, yeah, that sounds right, then that note gets put on the on the post and people see it. >> mark zuckerberg is now following in the footsteps of musk, who has dismantled fact checking teams and replaced them with user generated community notes. a musk critic and anti-hate advocate says zuckerberg and musk are being irresponsible in making community notes. the only way to guard against false claims and disinformation. >> this is going to create a tidal wave of unchallenged lies, increasing the spread of hate, threatening the integrity of our communities, our democracy, and potentially harming public health and our kids. >> this comes as zuckerberg, like musk, who is now a key ally of president elect donald trump, seems to be engaging in an ideological pivot to the right in american politics. >> this is not the guy who prese

joel kaplan. billy dimaio nicole perez tiger bech kareem badawi.hose are the folks who lost their lives. we're still learning so much about them. hope to learn more. we know 14 roses were placed out here yesterday before this street was reopened. they wanted to signify the fact that they were going to remember these people for quite some time, and crosses are now popping up all over the place. we know, of course, funerals will start sometime in the near future, and we're learning about these families and what they've lost. at the same time, people are worried about the security, especially with the super bowl coming. we know the nfl top security people were here yesterday. they are okay with the plan moving forward. we will see some of the hardening of the street in the next few hours. >> jim. yeah, so many young lives lost. it's just it's awful. ryan, thank you for paying tribute to them. let's let's go to ed lavandera in houston. what more are we learning about the attacker this morning? ed? >> well, investigators and those close to this suspect

but clegg says he is now stepping down and handing the role to his deputy, joel kaplan, who is one ofompany's most prominent republican leaders. kaplan has been working on policy at meta since 2011, but he previously held several key roles, including deputy chief of staff of policy during the george w. bush administration. also moving up into kaplan's current role, vp of global policy is kevin martin, who has been with the company for a long time, but also previously served as fcc chairman under george w. bush. this, of course, all comes as meta is preparing for a second trump presidency. and as ceo mark zuckerberg has been seeking to cozy up to trump. we did see zuckerberg visit trump at mar a lago after the election. meta has said it plans to donate $1 million to trump's inaugural fund, and the company has said that zuckerberg wants an active role in policy discussions, tech policy discussions with the trump white house, the trump white house is going to have some big decisions to make around tech policy, including presumably deciding whether and how to move forward with an antitrus

this is something that elon musk has also done on x, and it was announced by joel kaplan, who is one of the company's most prominent republicans. we talked last week. he was just elevated to the company's top policy job. he told fox news about how this is going to work this morning. let's listen. >> so somebody can write a note. >> and then the way it works is different. different people on the platform can sort of vote on that note. and if you get people who usually disagree who all say, yeah, that sounds right, then that note gets put on the on the post and people see it. x has been doing it for a while. we think it's working really well and we're going to adopt that system. >> so we're going to see a number of other changes to the company is pulling back on some of its automated content removal. so that will be focused on only the most extreme violations like terrorism, child sexual exploitation. and as you heard there, mark zuckerberg says this isn't a move to increase free expression, but i think it is pretty clearly also a play to appeal to some of the republicans, including tr

rolled out its announcement on fox news this morning with its newly named global policy chief, joel kaplane's a well-known republican, and that comes after they announced yesterday that trump ally ufc. ufc ceo dana white would also be joining its board. and this is all coming after the company pledged last month to donate $1 million to trump's inauguration. my source tonight is sarah fisher, a senior media reporter at axios. and, sarah, i know you just spoke to meta's chief marketing officer this evening about this. what did he have to say about this change in policy yeah. >> kaitlin, i spoke to him very shortly after this news came out, and i asked him, is this a permanent shift? because he argued that this is a return back to meadow's roots, to which i said, why did you shift away from them in the first place? you know, basically they faced a lot of political pressure, especially during the pandemic, to moderate content. and so now they might say that they're going back to their roots. i'm personally skeptical. if there's a new administration that comes in on the left, are they going to

he is being replaced by his number two, joel kaplan, who has been a vocal champion of conservative causesg has undergone something of a metamorphosis in recent months. last year he changed his appearance, and now he's changed his mind about one of social media's trickiest issues — content moderation. meta's owner, who controls facebook, instagram and threads, announced today that he's ending the process of content fact—checking by independent parties. it's currently a big tool in the fight against misinformation on his platforms, but now, he says, the rules are too restrictive and the moderators themselves are biased. we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship. the recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritising speech. so we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms. the martial arts fan wants to fight by different rules, allowing the platforms�* communities to police themselves. but communities don't always report c

i moved downstairs, to the first floor of the west wing and worked for joel kaplan until the end of the administration. host: first time you walked into the white house as a staff assistant, what was your reaction? rep. stefanik: i was very nervous. because even when you are on staff, particularly the first day when i was going into meet my boss, you sit in the west wing lobby. and i think anybody will tell you this who has sat in the west wing lobby for any type of interview or even a meeting, it is a very nerve-racking experience, but also an incredibly awe-inspiring experience. i remember thinking to myself, i can't believe i am sitting in the west wing of the white house. i wouldn't have imagined that a year or even two weeks earlier. so, it is a moment where you pinch yourself. and ken duberstein, who i interned for while i was in college, he was president reagan's chief of staff, he gave me a great piece of advice. he said that no matter what you are doing in life or no matter what job you have, pinch yourself every day you go into the west wing. because that is the people's house

host: that was posted by mark zuckerberg as a follow-up on the axios website saying joel kaplan, met chief global affairs officers set on fox and friends today but met his third-party fact checkers have demonstrated "too much political bias," kaplan, are prominent republican world government -- governing continent become too restrictive over time and ruling about this kind of sensitive topics that people want to discuss and debate, he added that if you can say it on tv you can say on the floor congress you ought to be say it on facebook and instagram without fear of censorship. so look for that story to play out over the next several days. you can bring it up during this open forum. this is terry in atlanta, democrats line. go ahead. caller: good morning pedro and happy new year to you and everyone. i have a couple of things i want to talk about, the first one is to give condolences to the family of our president carter, a peaceful man and i think what he stood for in terms of bringing his faith and his attitude towards humans to bear during his presidency and after his presidency is

administration in a are the name of the game and they already— name of the game and they already had joel kaplan a deputy. i have to say i know_ for them as a deputy. i have to say i know him and work with him _ say i know him and work with him at — say i know him and work with him at the _ say i know him and work with him at the white house under george — him at the white house under george w. bush and he is immensely talented and has a lovely— immensely talented and has a lovely family. he is known as being — lovely family. he is known as being a — lovely family. he is known as being a very loyal man, loyal friend~ — being a very loyal man, loyal friend~ he _ being a very loyal man, loyal friend. he took a risk during the confirmation hearings of brett — the confirmation hearings of brett cavanaugh, who i also worked _ brett cavanaugh, who i also worked with him when he was a staff— worked with him when he was a staff secretary for president bush — staff secretary for president bush. he took a risk of a type because — bush. he took a risk of a type because he was working at facebook and he cam