Facebook And MAGA, Winter Virus Season, LA Palisades Fire

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

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The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, is ending a fact-checking feature, the annual winter respiratory virus season is in full force, and the Palisades Fire in Southern California is rapidly spreading.

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0:00.0	Facebook and Instagram abandon the use of fact checkers tasked with keeping falsehoods off the sites.
0:08.4	Mark Zuckerberg announced the change.
0:09.9	How does it fit with his other moves as the Trump administration returns to power?
0:14.3	I'm Michelle Martin. That's Steve Inskeep, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.3	It's the season when people are hit by one winter virus after another.
0:25.5	As one starts to go down, the other is going to start peaking, and we're just not going to get a break.
0:29.8	They're like a series of snowstorms.
0:31.4	How can you protect yourself?
0:33.3	Also, clouds of smoke hangover neighborhoods in Southern California.
0:37.6	Tens of thousands have had to evacuate.
0:40.2	The wind's been kind of swirling a little bit.
0:42.5	If it turns to the south, then there's a lot of homes in danger.
0:46.1	How widespread are the wildfires?
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