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I'm Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, January 7th, and this is your Morning Wire Afternoon Update.
A federal judge has blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith's final report on Donald Trump. Judge Eileen Cannon issued the order today, delaying publication until a court of appeals reviews an emergency motion from Trump's co-defendants. The move follows legal filings that argue the report could create an unfair bias against some of the defendants.
The Justice Department had planned to release the report by Friday. During a press conference today, Trump commented on the development.
The fake witch hunt started by the DOJ having to do with books and records, and Biden had many more. And he wasn't protected by the Presidential Records Act, I was. But all of that fake stuff that took the lives of people, I mean, literally destroyed people. People are destroyed because of what they did. Destroyed.
Content moderation policies on Facebook and Instagram are headed for some drastic changes. Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham has more.
In a video today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the platform would end its partnerships with independent fact-checkers, loosen restrictions on controversial topics like gender and immigration, and scale back filters that previously censored innocuous posts. Zuckerberg cited bias among fact-checkers as a key reason for the shift, saying they had done more harm than good, especially in the U.S.,
Meta will now implement Community Notes, a similar program to that used by X. Here's Zuckerberg.
After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop 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, especially in the U.S.,
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