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Meta’s announcement earlier this month that anti-trans activist Robby Starbuck “will work collaboratively” with the company to address bias in its AI products marks another step in the social media giant’s rapid shift to the right.

Starbuck is a former music video editor who repositioned himself as a conservative influencer, best known for leveraging social media to pressure companies such as Tractor Supply Co. to abandon commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Starbuck has also spread anti-LGBTQ messaging, equating trans people with pedophiles through repeated use of the term “groomer.”...

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a high school English teacher who called on them to "take out every single person who supports" President Donald Trump, according to the Bangor Daily News.

JoAnna St. Germain, of Waterville, Maine, posted to Facebook this week that the Secret Service “has the perfect opportunity, if they choose to step up and take it. Coordinate. Take out every single person who supports Trump’s illegal, immoral, unconstitutional acts.”

It wasn't clear whether St. Germain was calling for the assassination of Trump....

MSNBC's Michael Steele raged at Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Sunday for doing away with fact-checking and allowing "suggestive comments" beneath the pictures of "young girls" on its platforms, among other questionable practices.

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, announced last week that it would no longer fact check posts, essentially opening the floodgates for bigoted and inappropriate content. Zuckerberg's change in tactics is seen as a nod to President-elect Donald Trump and the GOP who claimed Meta fact-checking was biased against conservative content.

Steele, Symone Sanders-Townsend, and Alicia Menendez all expressed outrage as they read "permissible" posts from a leaked Meta training manual published by The Intercept. ...

Meghan McCain was called out on X for limiting "who can reply" to her tweets after posting praise for the Trump era of "anti-censorship."

Users on the social media site criticized the conservative pundit's "hypocrisy," with musician Rourke writing, "So much for 'radically free speech'. It took only four minutes to show ur hypocrisy."

"Meghan McCain: YAY RADICAL FREE SPEECH! Also Meghan McCain: shuts off replies," chimed in @emisback717 on X....

A prominent voice in the Republican Party, outgoing New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), was put on the spot Tuesday when CNN's John Berman straight-out asked him, "How do you feel about facts?"

"I want to ask you a Meta question, no pun intended here," Berman said on CNN New Central. "How do you feel about facts?"

Sununu was taken aback, answering, "How do I? I'm pro facts!" he exclaimed. "I mean, yeah, look, I'm an engineer. I'm a numbers guy." ...

CHICAGO — In ballrooms, barrooms and backrooms this week, the business of big business is getting done with Democrats out of public view.

Yes, Bernie Sanders on Tuesday railed before Democratic National Convention delegates about how “millionaires and billionaires” should “not be able to buy elections.” And sure, curtailing “the corrupting influence of money in politics” is a plank in the 2024 Democratic Party platform.

But most Democrats in Chicago are ignoring the socialist senator and stepping over and around that party plank while pursuing cash that corporations and moneyed special interests are all too keen to contribute....