ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg once ‘threatened to pull’ UK investment in a private meeting with a minister.

The minutes describe how Zuckerberg said the U.K. is the “obvious territory” for Facebook to invest in Europe, but he claimed the company was looking elsewhere due to the criticism the company had been receiving in Britain.

According to the minutes, Zuckerberg said he supported the U.K.’s decision to regulate the internet but he was “worried about the tone.”

Hancock reportedly explained to Zuckerberg that he wanted to “use the decision to legislate as a new beginning for U.K. government relationships with the platform” adding that the “tone can shift from threatening regulation to ensure legislation is proportionate and innovation friendly.”

I’m old enough to remember when innovation meant building a better mousetrap, not encouraging users to increase screen time and hoovering up more and more of their personal data.

WOW: Bizarre Chainsaw Attack Sparks Viral 2A Video That Hits Home With Black Women.

BREAKING: Supreme Court Denies Pennsylvania GOP Challenge to Election Results.

I DID NOT SEE THAT ONE COMING: Matthew McConaughey Steps Up as a Voice of Reason.

NOT BUYING IT: Michigan AG says her son was “devastated” after a store employee said “Merry Christmas” to him. Really, lady?

HYDE AMENDMENT TESTIMONY: ‘I Would Have Been Dismembered… Thrown Into a Trash Can’ Says Black Woman Whose Mother Paid for Abortion.

THE STREISAND EFFECT: After Calling For a Boycott, AOC Named ‘Employee of the Month’ When Goya Sales Spike 1,000 Percent.

SHE NEEDS HER REST: Nancy Pelosi Creates Tiny 101-Day Working Schedule for Next Congress.

RAND PAUL: No Evidence That Lockdowns Change Coronavirus Trajectory.

WARP SPEED: FDA Says Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Is Safe and Effective, Approval Coming in Days.

OK, CHIEF: Colorado high school football teams in state championships face pressure to drop Native American mascots.

THAT WHOLE UNITY THING SURE WAS SHORT-LIVED: Biden’s Latest Nominee Proves He Comes Not To Bring Peace, But A Sword To The Culture War.

MODERN PROBLEMS: Canada Warns Conspiracy Theorists Could Burn 5G Towers, Claiming Link To Virus.

EXPLOSIVE: Texas Asks Supreme Court to Block ‘Unlawful Election Results’ in Swing States.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Attack a Cop, Get Shot — Memorialized By BLM, Too.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is there anyone of color so violently stupid and aggressively self-destructive that BLM would wash its hands of them?

Answer: No, no there is not.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Antifa finally and officially comes out against everything good.
• Come see the ignorance inherent in the leftism.
• Lockdowns have you down? You’re not alone.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

REFILL THE SWAMP: Two Biden Cabinet Picks Were Reprimanded For Roles In Clinton-Era ‘Pardongate’ Scandal.

HARSH, BUT FAIR: Fact Checks, Combative Questions, and Other Journalism Quirks You’ll Miss When Trump’s Gone.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Can’t Allow Democrats To Enjoy One Minute of Biden ‘Victory.’ “The Democrats and their flying monkeys in the media are still rending their garments over the fact that Trump and the faithful will not go quietly into Inauguration Day, which you all know I’m a fan of. Watching them flail throughout what should be their extended moment of triumph is rather delightful. I didn’t used to be this mean-spirited about politics but after what they did for the last four years I find myself a bit bereft of any charitable feelings for the Dems.”

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: No, The Georgia Vote-Counting Video Was Not ‘Debunked.’ Not Even Close.

On Friday morning, a group called Lead Stories published a “hoax alert” falsely claiming to have debunked the security video. The Washington Post, Newsweek, and other outlets followed along, criticizing non-leftist journalists for giving the video traction. In fact, none of the claims made by the Republicans were debunked.

Lead Stories’ “fact” “check” says government officials told them everything was fine with the counting, that the ballots were in “containers — not suitcases,” and that “party observers were never told to leave because counting was over for the night.”

Leaving aside whether relying solely and uncritically on government officials’ claims constitutes anything close to a “fact” “check,” let’s look at the claim that party observers were never told that counting was over for the night. In Lead Stories’ regurgitation of the government officials’ claims, only the people who cut open the absentee ballot envelopes were sent home, while ballot counters and scanners were retained and kept working — and no one told the press or other observers they were done counting.

Read the whole thing.

I’d just add that the newsmedia is awfully anxious not to look too closely into claims that suit their narrative.

AFTER THESE LAST NINE MONTHS I THINK WE CAN HANDLE MOST ANYTHING: Former Israeli space security chief says aliens exist, humanity not ready. “This ‘Galactic Federation’ has supposedly been in contact with Israel and the US for years, but are keeping themselves a secret to prevent hysteria until humanity is ready.”

This one reads a bit like satire, but apparently it isn’t.

SAD: 85 Percent of California Will Be Home for Christmas Under Lockdown.

THEY’RE GETTING DISCONCERTINGLY GOOD AT THIS STUFF: Chinese quantum computer completes 2.5-billion-year task in minutes. “Researchers in China claim to have achieved quantum supremacy, the point where a quantum computer completes a task that would be virtually impossible for a classical computer to perform. The device, named Jiuzhang, reportedly conducted a calculation in 200 seconds that would take a regular supercomputer a staggering 2.5 billion years to complete.”

HE ISN’T WRONG. Gingrich: Republicans Have to ‘Turn Out More Votes Than Stacey Abrams Can Steal.’

NOT THE BEE: This liberal ‘reverend’ is here to remind us that Marxism is a mind virus.

I’m not a Biblical scholar, but “Christmas season is about God choosing a woman to lead a revolution of re-organizing the structures of societal power by her leadership, tenderness, and faith” doesn’t exactly jibe with my understanding of the Gospel.

REFILL THE SWAMP: Biden Taps Planned Parenthood Lackey Xavier Becerra to Head HHS.