Facebook is making major changes to its platform, including getting rid of third-party fact-checking and replacing it with community notes, similar to X. Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company will be going back to its roots and focusing on reducing mistakes, simplifying policies, and restoring free expression. Meanwhile, President Biden is taking action to protect the U.S. East Coast from future oil and natural gas leasing, and the Trump administration is pushing back against this decision. The Biden administration is also releasing Gitmo detainees, including some of the worst of the worst, and swapping them for Americans held in Afghanistan.
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