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Speaker 1: You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges

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Speaker 1: the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast

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Speaker 1: is recorded on Hi. I'm Kimberly Braddish from m and

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Speaker 1: MEA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines

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Speaker 1: for Wednesday, January eighth, Meta is ending its US fact

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Speaker 1: checking program and easing restrictions on discussions about sensitive topics

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Speaker 1: like immigration and gender identity on its platforms. The owner

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Speaker 1: of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads is bowing to criticism from

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Speaker 1: conservatives as Donald Trump prepares to become president for a

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Speaker 1: second time. The movie is Meta's biggest overhaul of its

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Speaker 1: approach to managing political content on its services in recent memory,

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Speaker 1: and comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg has signaled a desire

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Speaker 1: to mend his relationship with the incoming president. Zuckerberg posting

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Speaker 1: a video saying, We've reached a point where it's just

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Speaker 1: too many mistakes and too much censorship. It's time to

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Speaker 1: get back to our roots around free expression. He acknowledged

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Speaker 1: the role of the recent US elections in his thinking,

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Speaker 1: saying it feels like a cultural tipping point towards once

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Speaker 1: again prioritizing speech. In place of a formal fact checking program,

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Speaker 1: the company will instead rely on crowdsourced fact checking contributions

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Speaker 1: from users, similar to the community notes program used by

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk's social media platform x. It will stop proactively

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Speaker 1: scanning for hate speech and other types of rule breaking,

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Speaker 1: and review such posts only in response to user reports.

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Speaker 1: It will allow users to call out posts that are

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Speaker 1: potentially misleading and need more context, rather than placing the

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Speaker 1: responsibility on independent fact checking organizations and experts. The head

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Speaker 1: of the International Fact Checking Network challenged Zuckerberg's characterization of

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Speaker 1: its members as biased or censorous, while Australian Green Senator

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Speaker 1: Sarah Hanson Young has called it a dangerous move, telling

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Speaker 1: ABC Radio Australians will face more misinformation, abuse and trolling online.

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Speaker 1: Australian Associated Press Chief executive Lisa Davis says independent fact

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Speaker 1: checkers are a vital safeguard against the spread of harmful

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Speaker 1: misinformation and disinformation that threatens to undermine free democratic debate

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Speaker 1: in Australia and aims to manipulate public opinion. Three people

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Speaker 1: have died in a seaplane crash off Rottnest Island, with

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Speaker 1: their bodies recovered from the wreckage last night. The WA

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Speaker 1: Premier has confirmed the plane plunged into the water shortly

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Speaker 1: after takeoff in Thompson Bay with seven people on board

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Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon. The victims include a sixty five year old

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Speaker 1: Swiss tourist, a sixty year old Danish tourist, and the

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Speaker 1: thirty four year old Perth based pilot. Four other passengers

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Speaker 1: were rescued from the water, with three hospitalized and one discharged.

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Speaker 1: The Cessna to eight, recently acquired by Swan River Seaplanes,

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Speaker 1: crashed into the water shortly after takeoff, reportedly striking Philip

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Speaker 1: Rock near Thompson Bay. Federal investigators are examining the incident,

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Speaker 1: focusing on wreckage, recovery, flight data and maintenance records. WA

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Speaker 1: Premier Roger Cook and Prime Minister Anthony Ourbatasy express their

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Speaker 1: condolences to the victim's families, acknowledging the public's heroic efforts

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Speaker 1: during the rescue. Nick Curios is in doubt for the

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Speaker 1: Australian Open because of an abdominal strain. He was primed

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Speaker 1: for his Melbourne Park comeback next week, which would be

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Speaker 1: his first major since the twenty twenty two US Open.

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Speaker 1: He has been sidelined with career threatening wrist and knee

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Speaker 1: injuries that required three rounds of surgery. After making his

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Speaker 1: official return from injury at last week's Brisbane International, where

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Speaker 1: he played singles and partnered format world number one Novak

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Speaker 1: Djokovic in the doubles, Curios revealed his comeback could be

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Speaker 1: cut short. He's posted to Instagram saying that he had

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Speaker 1: withdrawn from an exhibition event with Djokovic in Melbourne tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: but was still hopeful of suiting up for the Slam.

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Speaker 1: Curios wrote, Unfortunately, I won't be able to play with

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Speaker 1: my good friend this Thursday as I've had an ultrasound

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Speaker 1: on my abdominal and have a Grade one strain. And

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Speaker 1: Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster have confirmed their relationship it seems,

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Speaker 1: and they want everyone to know about it. Jackman's long

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Speaker 1: standing relationship with Debra Leefess has been well documented in

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Speaker 1: Australian history, and so it was a major upset when

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Speaker 1: they announced their divorce in September twenty twenty three. But

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Speaker 1: one year later, in news that no one saw coming

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Speaker 1: except for the very biggest Broadway nerds, Hugh Jackman was

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Speaker 1: linked to his long term friend and former co star

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Speaker 1: Sutton Foster. Now their romance has been confirmed in what

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Speaker 1: can only be described as a very sweet and very

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Speaker 1: staged stroll about town for the paparazzi. In new photos

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Speaker 1: obtained by People magazine, the pair can be seen walking

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Speaker 1: hand in hand along the streets of Santa Monica. Given

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Speaker 1: the ease the pair have had in keeping their romance

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Speaker 1: under wraps until now, it seems this sweet display was

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Speaker 1: their way of confirming the relationship on their own terms

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Speaker 1: with a nice, big exclusive label. You can check out

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Speaker 1: the photos on the Muma mea website. That's your latest

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Speaker 1: news headlines. On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie, as we

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Speaker 1: continue to savor the holiday period, we hear advice from

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Speaker 1: women who've traveled the globe solo. Listen to The Quickie

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