Things are changing under Trump. Lets keep count:

cv5 · Tuesday at 2:32 PM

Robby Starbuck on X: "Mark Zuckerberg just announced that both FB and Meta will fire fact checkers and use a new community notes system like X instead. He admits fact checkers are too politically biased and that he needs Trump’s help to stop other countries from censoring content. Elon’s courage https://t.co/DPO0sohQfS" / X

Kyle Becker on X: "BREAKING.🚨 The 119th Congress has passed its first bill: The Laken Riley Act. "[T]he Laken Riley Act, sponsored by Rep. Mike Collins, holds the Biden Administration accountable for their role in these tragedies through their open border policies, requires detention of illegal https://t.co/lyN55ofgGa" / X

Kyle Becker on X: "JUST IN: @MTGreenee introducers a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America’ https://t.co/lt6R38k86D" / X

cv5 · Tuesday at 5:19 PM

Chief Nerd on X: "Trump Says 'Canada Should Be a State' "I said that to Governor Trudeau. I said listen, what would happen if we didn't subsidize you? ... Why are we supporting a country $200 billion plus a year? Our military is at their disposal ... They should be a state. That's what I told https://t.co/nzRB5zd3tJ" / X

Chief Nerd on X: "NEW — Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is ‘Restoring Free Expression’ on His Platforms “We’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes, similar to X … The fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they https://t.co/DhCKvWmPub" / X

cv5 · Tuesday at 5:22 PM

Chief Nerd on X: "👀 Trump on Who Was Really in the Crowd on J6 "We're looking at it ... 24 or 28 people came now from the FBI that came out very quietly ... We have to find out about Hezbollah. We have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing because people that did some bad things https://t.co/Ag5Ivtva8d" / X

cv5 · Tuesday at 5:22 PM

Chief Nerd on X: "👀 Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan Says the Biden Admin Was Championing Global Censorship & It’s About to Change Under Trump “One of the things we've experienced is that when you have a U.S. President and Administration that's pushing for censorship it just makes https://t.co/KwmlI62aAA" / X

studier · Tuesday at 7:45 PM

@cv5: Zuckerberg should still be investigated re: 2020 and face stiff penalties if/when proven that he interfered in the election. Along with this anyone that may have threatened him to do so should be outed and he can spend some of his vast fortune on more and more guards.

Did you see Trump's conference today? IMO he's changed quite a bit and is even more and better in the no bs mode. Not as much direct criticism of the press. He's made his case and won. Now it's just being direct and more stern about what he's going and not going to tell them. No more games it seems. He's already won them and now it's nose to the grindstone with some real talent with him.

Interesting.

Cameron143 · Tuesday at 7:56 PM

studier said:

Zuckerberg runs a privately held company. He can run it as he sees fit. Where the free speech rights were violated was when the government paid him to suppress content of conservatives. The first ammendment doesn't apply to businesses.

studier · Tuesday at 8:47 PM

Cameron143 said:

Understood. At the moment though he seems to be facing a heavy antitrust case finally coming to court and among other moves, he's pretty obviously staffing up with a key republican exec and Trump's good friend Dana White on his board. Trump threatened to put him in jail apparently at one point. This can surely be good business at this time, but maybe a bit of fear leading to repentance? Maybe guys like White made him see the light since he's gotten into MMA. Maybe he's just growing up finally. Don't you get the sense that many know this admin including new leadership of the FBI and the DOJ is not going to be playing games with anything that remotely hints of elections interference? IMO things are heading into some seriousness we've not had for some time. I realize that antitrust does not = where this discussion began.

An interesting article updated today https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5251151/meta-fact-checking-mark-zuckerberg-trump

Cameron143 · Tuesday at 9:31 PM

studier said:

Understood. At the moment though he seems to be facing a heavy antitrust case finally coming to court and among other moves, he's pretty obviously staffing up with a key republican exec and Trump's good friend Dana White on his board. Trump threatened to put him in jail apparently at one point. This can surely be good business at this time, but maybe a bit of fear leading to repentance? Maybe guys like White made him see the light since he's gotten into MMA. Maybe he's just growing up finally. Don't you get the sense that many know this admin including new leadership of the FBI and the DOJ is not going to be playing games with anything that remotely hints of elections interference? IMO things are heading into some seriousness we've not had for some time. I realize that antitrust does not = where this discussion began.

An interesting article updated today https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5251151/meta-fact-checking-mark-zuckerberg-trump

All good stuff. I think he sees the political winds changing and wants to hang out with the new cool kids.
And I'm never bothered by detours. And we do live in interesting times. Winds of change are ablowin'.