The resort is the “Center of the Universe,” Trump declared on social media Friday, adding, “Bill Gates asked to come, tonight.” Representatives for Trump and Gates didn’t clarify if the Microsoft co-founder did indeed join the parade of figures making the trip to Mar-a-Lago.

This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Canadian politics post-Trudeau’ Kasia Broussalian Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Wednesday, January 8th, and this is your FT News Briefing.

Justin Trudeau’s resignation sparked a nationwide contest to replace him as Prime Minister of Canada, with several top candidates emerging from the Liberal Party.

Thanks, also, to the ham-fisted way the Trudeau Liberals approached news on search and social media, the content of Canadian news outlets is currently banned from Facebook and Instagram. None of this is going to change unless we have a change in government. Trudeau may be going but his attacks on freedom of expression remain.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced he is to turn his social media outlet into an Elon Musk's X-style free speech platform. "We're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes,

No doubt though, Trudeau had political sex-appeal – the image of Ivanka Trump looking hungrily at him at a dinner went viral. And along with Angela Merkel, he convinced a lot of people that they were better and more proficient decision-makers than the record shows they were in their long stays.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social media company is ending its fact-checking program and replacing it with a community-driven system similar to that of Elon Musk's X.

O n Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision? Elon Musk’s X.

Former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya appeared on OutKick's "Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich" to talk Mark Zuckerberg's about-face on fact-checking programs.

Trudeau cautioned that President-elect Donald Trump is “a very skillful negotiator” and fretted that his statehood push may be masking a more menacing tariff threat.

Musk also shared an AI-generated video of Donald Trump playing a sombre violin piece behind Justin Trudaeu’s resignation announcement. Trump has earlier suggested enforced tariffs on Canada and Mexico, expressing his desire that the America’s Hat be absorbed into the US of A, as