Owners of Television City scale back plans for a $1.25-billion upgrade of the legendary studio lot in response to neighbors’ concerns.

“Meta’s new promise to scale back fact checking isn’t surprising — Zuckerberg is one of many billionaires who are cozying up to dangerous demagogues like Trumpov and pushing initiatives that favor their bottom lines at the expense of everything and everyone else,” she said in a statement.

I brought this up in a conversation and we both agreed to scale back.

Councilmembers Traci Park and Monica Rodriguez also voted no, saying they fear hotels and other businesses will scale back operations, cutting employees or turning to automation.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany paid a surprise visit to Ukraine on Monday, his first in more than two years, to reaffirm his country’s support amid mounting concern in Kyiv that the West could scale back military aid and push for a negotiated settlement with Russia.