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Facebook And MAGA, Winter Virus Season, LA Palisades Fire

Up First from NPR
Up First from NPR
Episode • Jan 8 • 13m
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, is ending a fact-checking feature, the annual winter respiratory virus season is in full force, and the Palisades Fire in Southern California is rapidly spreading.

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Today's episode of Up First was edited by Kara Platoni, Scott Hensley, Denice Rios, Janaya Williams and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Lilly Quiroz. We get engineering support from David Greenburg, and our technical director is Carleigh Strange.


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