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Zuckerberg to Replace Facebook ‘Fact Checkers’ With Community Notes

January 7, 2025 7:19 amJanuary 7, 2025 7:20 am

Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday morning that his company Meta/Facebook will end its fact-checking program, and will instead adopt Elon Musk’s X/Twitter “Community Notes” system. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp. Zuckerberg admits “fact checkers” on...

An Asterisk* for Soros’ Medal of Freedom

January 7, 2025 2:55 amJanuary 7, 2025 7:37 am

Reaction to outgoing President Joe Biden’s awarding a Presidential Medal of Freedom to George Soros was swift. Condemnation, ridicule and disbelief focused on both Biden himself and the radical recipient. This is yet another outrageous act in a string of...

ExxonMobil Sues Calif. AG Rob Bonta, Environmental Groups Over Defamation

January 7, 2025 2:45 amJanuary 7, 2025 6:36 am

Oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil filed a lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and the Intergenerational Environment Justice Fund, on Monday, claiming defamation over their plastic recycling initiatives. For several years,...

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California Courts and Retroactivity of Criminal Statutes

January 7, 2025 2:30 amJanuary 7, 2025 2:31 am

While we know that a general principle of statutory construction is to apply new laws prospectively, criminal law statutes can be unique particularly problematic when it comes to their effective or operative dates. The following is a recent state appellate...

Why Incumbent Congressional Representatives Michelle Steel and John Duarte Should Have Won

January 6, 2025 4:06 pmJanuary 6, 2025 4:13 pm

In 2020, California’s Assembly Bill 860 fundamentally altered state election laws by requiring county elections officials to mail a vote-by-mail ballot to every registered voter for all elections. The bill allowed ballots postmarked on or before Election Day to be...

Newsom Postpones State Of The State Address To Attend Jimmy Carter’s Funeral In Washington

January 6, 2025 1:57 pmJanuary 6, 2025 1:57 pm

The office of Governor Gavin Newsom announced over the weekend that the much hyped duel State of the State address and state budget presentation would not be happening this week, with the address instead being planned for later this year....

SF Chronicle Calls Prop. 13 Property Tax Cuts ‘Subsidies’

January 6, 2025 10:59 amJanuary 6, 2025 9:46 pm

The San Francisco Chronicle has an article today about Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot initiative overwhelmingly passed by California voters, which reduced property tax rates on homes, businesses, and farms by about 57%. Opponents have long claimed that because of...