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Facebook and Instagram abandoned the use of fact checkers tasked with keeping falsehoods off the sites.
Mark Zuckerberg announced the change.
How does it fit with his other moves as the Trump administration returns to power?
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It's the season when people are hit by one winter virus after another.
As one starts to go down, the other's gonna start peaking and we're just not gonna get a break.
Like a series of snowstorms.
How can you protect yourself?
Also, clouds of smoke hang over neighborhoods in Southern California.
Tens of thousands have had to evacuate.
The wind's been kind of swirling a little bit.
If it turns to the south, then there's a lot of homes in danger.
How widespread are the wildfires?
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