{"id":30603,"date":"2025-01-16T02:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T02:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/biden-warns-oligarchy-is-taking-shape-in-america-in-farewell-address-as-it-happened\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T02:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T02:54:14","slug":"biden-warns-oligarchy-is-taking-shape-in-america-in-farewell-address-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/biden-warns-oligarchy-is-taking-shape-in-america-in-farewell-address-as-it-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden warns \u2018oligarchy is taking shape in America\u2019 in farewell address \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog is now closed. For the latest on Biden\u2019s farewell address, read our full report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/15\/joe-biden-farewell-address-trump-oligarchy-america\">Joe Biden warns \u2018oligarchy is taking shape in America\u2019 in farewell address<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fact-checking and misinformation got a shout out during his address: \u201cThe free press is crumbling,\u201d said Biden. \u201cSocial media is giving up on fact checking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden spoke about the ravages of climate change and warned of corporate efforts to roll back climate protections. \u201cPowerful forces want to wield their unchecked influence to eliminate the steps we\u2019ve taken to tackle the climate crisis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/15\/president-biden-farewell-address-speech-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog is now closed. For the latest on Biden\u2019s farewell address, read our full report: Joe Biden warns \u2018oligarchy is taking shape in America\u2019 in farewell address Fact-checking and misinformation got a shout out during his address: \u201cThe free press is crumbling,\u201d said Biden. \u201cSocial media is giving up on fact checking.\u201d Biden &#8230; <a title=\"Biden warns \u2018oligarchy is taking shape in America\u2019 in farewell address \u2013 as it happened\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/biden-warns-oligarchy-is-taking-shape-in-america-in-farewell-address-as-it-happened\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Biden warns \u2018oligarchy is taking shape in America\u2019 in farewell address \u2013 as it happened\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}