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We are 10 days BT: Before Trump is back in office. And this week has seen the president elect given to an unconditional discharge, spared of jail or a fine, but confirmed as a convicted felon for fraud relating to hush money payments to an adult film star. Meanwhile, he is making ever clearer his long held desire to aquire Greenland, with his son and apparent envoy Donald Jr. flying in on Trump Force One to capital Nuuk. Expansion plans also appear to include the Panama Canal. The fact that neither are for sale seems a mere detail and says he wouldn’t rule out military force to control them. It was on Donald Trump’s favourite tv station Fox and Friends that a surprise announcement came on Tuesday: a recorded video from Mark Zuckerberg, boss of Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The site moderation is being changed. No more fact checkers being used in the US, to fight disinformation and fake news. They are too politically biased he said. Meanwhile, arguably the influencer of all influencers right now Elon Musk has been engaging in online warfare with the British government this week, attacking Keir Starmer on a daily basis. |