mehta, the owner of facebook and instagram will end its third—party fact checking programme, and movedsk�*s platform exit uses. restrictions on contentious topics such as immigration and gender identity will also end. mark zuckerberg said this will promote freedom of speech which he hopes to prioritise, overtaking misinformation. irate overtaking misinformation. we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content that the problem _ to moderate content that the problem with complex systems as they make mistakes. even if they— they make mistakes. even if they accidentally sent to just 1% they accidentally sent to just i% of— they accidentally sent to just 1% of posts that is millions of mole — 1% of posts that is millions of people. and we have reached a point _ people. and we have reached a point where there are just too many— point where there are just too many mistakes and too much censorship. many mistakes and too much censorship-— many mistakes and too much censorship. many mistakes and too much censorshi. , ., , censorship. this move comes as zuckerberg _ censorship. this move co

the next day, he announced mehta was cutting its fact-checking program on facebook and instagram. was installed after the 2016 election to manage so-called, misinformation. but they now admit it would go too far because the fact-checkers were too biased. in other words, the rats are bringing good people onboard to stop their ship from sinking. here's zuckerberg. >> we reached a point where it's too many mistakes and too much censorship. the recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point to once again prioritizing speech. we tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. but the fact-checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created, especially in the u.s. so over the next couple of months, we will phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. it has gone too far. >> greg: so the first question you have to ask yourself is, if this guy is worth billions, would it kill him to stop cutting his own hair? [laughter] but also, would this have happened if kamala had one? no. he read the writin

[laughter] mehta announced they would do away with this. get your reaction submitted.he concern of the democratic caucus in the information it is clear companies are. and that is the world we live in. >> does congress have any role? >> they needed over anything so i would imagine we are going to hear robust discussion on what we can regulate what they should be regulating and what that looks like. >> starting off but. >> republicans try to do a lot alone but what you see for bipartisan action? >> republicans turned away border security and immigration reform. i said i would have voted for so they do not have track record. your jeffries the other day and i have set times, will work to make lives better for our constituents and everyday americans that are mandate. it is residing it can enter rhetoric and rapid in the policy that the present but if they genuinely want to do this and i've got a track record with republicans, many have since been on from the chamber on real reform and members on the other side of the aisle and they will have discussions about that and they

i've come to the royal free in north london to meet dr gautam mehta.s of a recent study looking at the connections between binge drinking and liver disease. when you think about binge drinking, people have a vision of people sprawling out of bars and clubs and, you know, falling around by bus stops. that's not what we mean biologically. what is a binge? so we can define a binge. it's defined by the world health organization and it's also in uk guidance. so, for a woman, it's six units of alcohol at one sitting. and, fora man, it's eight units. i'm trying to make sense of... trying to make sense of that. six units could be two large glasses of wine. so, if you have 2.5 regular—sized glasses of wine or two large glasses of wine, and you're a female, you're at your limit for being below a binge level. do people have a hard time believing that that is real and that will cause you harm if you exceed that? yeah. i think they do. what we recently showed was that binge drinking on its own, even with a weekly consumption of less than 1a units, will increase you

you just heard neil mehta highlight these names. maybe the eqt s of the world. toby rice, president and ceo of eqt , who i think is down there in much warmer miami. toby, you are originally from boston and i bring that up because right now in the new england area we are seeing about 75% of all electricity production right now coming from natural gas, nuclear, energy that is mostly natural gas. only 7% of all electricity right now is being generated by wind and a couple of percent is being created by trash or burning trees. >> yikes. >> burning trees and trash to make energy. we talked about this before, toby. we have a new administration. do you think 2025 will finally be the year we get more pipelines built in the united states so we can stop burning trees to make electricity? >> yes. what you just mentioned is something that everybody has been looking at the energy systems that have been developed over the last 5 or 10 years in this era of renewables and they are scratching their heads. you know, why we burning trash to generate power? we are sitting next to t

he also said that the f b, i warrant mehta and facebook about russian just information on the biden. families dealings with perez, my. the energy company were 100 biden's served on the board and ukraine, which ultimately turned out not to be russian fake news. even though facebook treated as such at the time and agreed to demote the story. so the white house has dr. birds direct line, clearly wonder how badly they want drugs. well, according to his former p r guy, pretty badly. sometimes i think the attack is coming. neither from the european union nor from france, it's most likely an attack from the united states, which has been after people do are off for a long time and door off as always talked about it. and he said, for example, in an interview with tucker, carlson knows that he and his employees are under pressure, or at least there's some kind of surveillance conducted by the f b i, i think the root causes are there. so it doesn't make any sense to discuss the intentions of differential authorities who arrested him because they don't play any role here at all. so what he seems

back in 2021. mehta issued an indefinite donald trump after he instigated the january 6th riots that then was lifted in 2023. and since trump's re election mentor has made a $1000000.00 contribution to funds integration celebrations. zacko berg dined with the top. i just started a resort and that have been changes to senior staffing with republicans being swapped in at the board level. all of this looks less leg zacko bug is restoring free speech and mode about big tech making nice with the white house. thanks me, us and the big tech is not alone in preparing for a 2nd. trump term across the us media landscape. there was a mix of anticipation and concern for the pro trump or as of right wing channels like fox news, nation and online overlaps the quote free speech express will give them a lot more space. the rest ranging from never trump, or as the skeptics are braced for impact during his latest election campaign. donald trump attack the media more than $100.00 times, took news outlets the court and threatened to pull the licenses of broadcasters. he does not like we've just days rem

some of that to that introduce an x for me and that was put to my kind of results and mehta. we're focused on building the fundamental technology that will help bring the metal metal c o box is that the book has long to be in a champion of active content. moderation is now reverse disposition, basically giving into conservatives who had accused metals practicing a form of censorship. a youtube that he acknowledges, reflect ships in the us political landscape after tom 1st got elected in 2016. the legacy media wrote non stop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. we tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. but the fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created over the next few months. better we'll face in what is described as a community note system in which essentially uses themselves police and regulate the platform. it's similar to what was introduced on x, but it also follows the model established by wikipedia. one of the most used and most respected fact sear

of the social media company, mehta, which operates facebook and instagram besides the end is fact checking operations. following the allegations that there were politically via the our continuing our coverage of the latex trends, shaping the. busy right now, this is our team to national i a michael portrait. now for some breaking news, just reaching us now a flight in ross. it has made an emergency landing after a passage indicated he had a bomb in his baggage. and that type of thing is also set to have attractive female passenger with a nice report of the a fall with these have conducted this side of the aircraft and there was no explosive device found. and now what's the powers of gap? i didn't jump need to discuss additional funding for ukraine, or the u. s. is expected to locate another $500000000.00 in ministry. suspends is a lot to ditch effort before donald trump takes office next week as a his legs to cut down support for key of the printer guns as a future. it will depend on trends, approval, up to date, the united states and our allies and partners have collectively committed mor

reporter: mehta made a decision this week about doing away with fact checking for facebook and othertforms. it does the white house have a reaction to that? sec. jean-pierre: we have been pretty consistent here over the last four years. when any corporation or company makes a decision, a private company, to be more specific, makes a decision, we just won't comment. i won't comment on this. i will just leave it in that realm. look, i will say this. social media companies make their own rules about content moderation. that said, we've been outspoken about our belief that social media companies have an important role to play to prevent the spread of misinformation. that is the responsibility that company has and we have always been pretty clear about that. speaking specifically to an announcement, we won't comment. reporter: i understand. but that is something you have been outspoken about and for are making a change on that -- they are making a change on that. sec. jean-pierre: look, we talk about social media companies having a responsibility. we have always said that. we've been very

. >> mehta is doing a full 180.rump's commitment to free expression ditching the fact-checking censorship and announcing the changes on fox. >> we've got a real opportunity now we have a new administration and a new president coming in. big defenders of free expression and that makes a difference. one of the thanks we've experienced is that win you have a u.s. president administration that's pushing for censorship it makes it open season for other governments around the world that don't even have the production first amendment to really put pressure on u.s. companies. one a to work with president trump to push back on that kind of thing around the world. >> jesse: trump took note of the change in tone. >> i think they've come a long way, meta. facebook. i think they've come a long way. i watched it was very impressive. i actually watched it on fox i'm not allowed to say that. >> for trumpet winning fixes everything. all the tech titans who attacked him are now boarding the trump train. amazon's jeff bessette was mad

. >>> mehta announced it's planning to cut 5% of its workforce, that's according to an internal memo from the ceo. the company will notify its lowest performing workers by february 10th. and the company intends to not hire new people to fill those roles. >>> still ahead, the fda bans a popular dive found in some of (vo) struggling with moderate to severe crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis? talk to your doctor about #1 prescribed entyvio, offering t maintence options, including the entyvio pen. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. pml, a rare, potentially fatal brain infection cannot be ruled out. tell your doctor if you have an infection, flu-like symptoms, sores, or are prone to infections. liver problems can occur. entyvio. relief. remission. for real. ♪entyvio, entyvio, entyvio♪ the first time you try bounce, it hits you. your laundry feels way fresher, softer. so you start to wonder. if i put a sheet of bounce on the finance guy, will it make him softer? bounce can't do it al

shannon: facebook mehta found her telling joe rogan his interactions his company had with the biden administratione big policy changes. time for the sunday group and see what they think usa today washington bureau chief susan page mollie hemingway federalist editor-in-chief, foxy senior political analyst juan williams. by the way author of the bread a book out tuesday, new price for these eyes the american rise of american second civil rights movement. editor-in-chief of jewish and cider. welcome everybody and congratulations on the book this week, one. so it molly, zuckerberg went on to say want to start pushing back in earnest the agencies and government entities began investigating coming after somebody they said it was a brutal pair. >> passing three hour interview with joe rogan. mark zuckerberg goes through what it's like to meet pressure from the government to censor american speech and debate of all sorts of issues. how any resistance they put forth against this resulted in different agencies and the federal government coming after them seemingly unrelated but clearly because the governmen

be the mayor of san jose and he's like, well, i will be darned, and he fires off a letter to norman mehtand his like, hey, norm, remember that fat kid from cody? that is how he referred to himself. and of course, norm remembered him and later, they are both elected to congress. they have a decades long friendship. norman said, you know, i am a liberal democrat and he is a good republican, referring to alan simpson. and you know, we might have fights in committee hearings but then we always slap each other on the back and say, come on, let's go have dinner. let's go have a drink. when you look at pictures of them, and there are many, you look at pictures of them throughout their life starting in, you know, their 30's, 40's, when they get to washington, all the way up through their 80's, they are almost always in states of uproarious laughter. they are just clearly just enjoying each other so much. even their wives described -- what is up with them question might even their wives were like, these guys are weird. they just have such an affinity for each other. the pictures of them are really

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. >> mehta is revamping their approach to free speech.that they would drop a third-party fact checking and moved to community notes. >> after trump was elected in 2016, legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. in good faith we try to address those concerns without becoming arbiters of truth. fact checkers have been politically biased and destroyed more trust than they created in the u.s., so over the next couple of months we will be phasing in a more comprehensive community driven system. >> they will also take a more personalized approach to political content in the u.s. dell is rebranding pc content in a brand to increase sales, dropping old names in favor of simpler product names. they will be using business chips to upload through their rival intel. donald trump reiterating his ambition to purchase greenland, promising to make a great again after news of his sons visit there. writing on truth so show that it's an incredible place and the people would benefit tremendously if and when it became a pa

i'm the senior racial equity coordinator filling in for sharda mehta, who is the community partnerships and engagement program manager while she's out. so the community partnership and engagement program, cpap improves accessibility and awareness of the department's programs and policies by centering racial and social equity in its strategies. we have a few funding sources that includes the impound account, work orders by the puc, grants from the epa and general fund for our corps funded priorities. first is create a diverse pool of community partners the department can fund to conduct deeper engagement across all program areas. the second one is partner with the school district and community partners on environmental education projects, including youth events, youth community impact projects, and youth led community outreach. the third one is lead innovative zero waste and toxics reduction campaigns that include community partners and promote language accessibility, and the fourth is create a volunteer program to engage a diverse group of community members in climate action efforts in

real action to implement the recommendations of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, and mehtas announced its scrapping its third party fact checking service in the us after nine years and replacing it with a community note system similar to the one used by x, where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. in a video posted alongside a blog post, chief executive mark zuckerberg said third party moderators were too politically biased and it was time to get back to our roots around free expression. the move comes as zuckerberg and other tech executives seek to improve relations with us president elect donald trump before he takes office later this month. donald trump has criticised meta for its fact checking policy, calling it censorship of right wing voices. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, it's back to patrick for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> well, it's just gone 9:00 pm and many of you will have probably just put your children to bed. you never t