🗞️CNN Layoffs, The Border, And Oakley Smart Glasses

January 22, 2025

January 22nd, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

CNN to lay off hundreds of employees as post-inauguration transformation begins, sources say

Both CNN and NBC News are planning layoffs this week as newsrooms transition away from linear TV toward digital audiences.

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/01/22/cnn-to-lay-off-hundreds-of-employees-post-inauguration.html

  • CNN plans to lay off hundreds of employees as it refocuses the business around a global digital audience

  • The U.S. Pentagon is sending an additional 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border in the next few days

  • The SEC announced that acting Chair, Mark Uyeda, has launched a “crypto task force” aimed at “developing a comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for crypto assets.”

  • Employees in any federal diversity, equity, inclusion positions will be placed on paid administrative leave, this action is the first attempt by the new administration to close/end all DEI programs and jobs

  • The Trump Administration has ordered a communications blackout at America's federal health agencies, the CDC, FDA, HHS and NIH have all been told to pause external communications, including publishing scientific reports, updating websites or issuing health advisories

  • Meta is teaming up with sunglasses company, Oakley, to make a new breed of smart glasses for athletes with a built in camera and other features

  • MrBeast, the internet’s most-followed and highest-earning content creator/youtuber, has joined a new bid to buy TikTok, per Bloomberg

  • Amazon is shutting down its operations in Quebec in the next few weeks, more than 1,700 people will lose their job

  • DOW up .30% /S&P up .61%

  • Prince Harry has officially settled his lawsuit with Rupert Murdoch and his tabloid, The Sun, there was an official apology given by the newspaper for intruding into his life for years and an 8-figure payment made in the settlement

Bonus: A look at the length of inauguration speeches amongst Presidents…on Monday, Trump had the longest speech in modern history

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