While Twitter was an important outlet for Trump to engage with supporters during the campaign, many of them are asking him to tame his use of the social platform. He is been given wide range to bring “drastic change” by his supporters, but according to them, Twitter should not be a part of his strategy as president.

Donald Trump is not yet president, but his statements and comments in the interim are already changing U.S. policy — while at the same time supporting his business interests around the world. The strongest conflicts of interest are emerging in Asia, including in Russia and the Philippines. If Trump Tower Moscow is built, his kids will make millions of dollars from it. That is why foreign leaders hoping to curry favor will do everything they can to help Trump’s family erect more buildings, sell more jewelry, etc.

The 2016 election year has been bombarded by fake news. Every year, PolitiFact picks a “Lie of the Year,” and 2016 proved a difficult one for them. Instead of picking one lie, the absurd rise in fake news forced them to choose them all. The lie of the year in 2016 is: Fake News.

Donald Trump has chosen the CEO of ExxonMobil Rex Tillerson as the next Secretary of State. He is expected to have a tough confirmation battle in the Senate, due to his close ties with Russia and president Vladimir Putin. Trump defended his pick saying: "His tenacity, broad experience and deep understanding of geopolitics make him an excellent choice for Secretary of State. He will promote regional stability and focus on the core national security interests of the United States."

Electors in the Electoral College are demanding an intelligence briefing about foreign intervention into the presidential election. They have less than a week to receive the briefing before they finalize their vote on December 19. John Podesta, chairman of the Hillary Clinton campaign, wrote an open letter in which he supported the calls for a briefing.

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been selected as the Secretary of Energy in the Trump administration. Perry has run for president twice, and in a 2011 debate, when advocating shutting down various federal agencies, could not remember the third department he wanted to eliminate. Hint: It's the one he's now been chosen to run. Perry was critical of Trump this year, warning he was a "cancer on conservatism."

The top of the tech chain -- including Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg – will reportedly attend a summit with President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday. “The invite for the … event came from Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus, as well as his son-in-law and chief whisperer Jared Kushner and, of course, his biggest tech supporter, investor Peter Thiel,” Recode reports.

John Bolton, a likely pick for a top foreign policy position in the Trump administration, suggested over the weekend that all the talk about Russian intervention in the 2016 election cycle may be a “false flag” invented by the Obama administration. Bolton suggested on Fox News that the hacking of Democratic and Republican emails may have been perpetrated by the Obama administration.

President-elect Trump will hold a tech summit on Wednesday at Trump Tower. Invitations were sent out to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet CEO Larry Page and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. It is unclear how these tech executives, many of whom were critical of Trump during the campaign, will act in the meeting. Notable exclusions from the list of invitees: Mark Cuban, Marc Benioff (Salesforce founder) and Meg Whitman (HP CEO).

The publicly funded Voice of America TV network is having its bipartisan board disbanded through a provision in the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act. Some close to the network are worried it could serve as a de facto Trump network. Michael Kempner, a Democratic member of the network’s board, said: “Congress unwittingly just gave President-elect Trump unchecked control of all U.S. media outlets.” Voice of America gets $800 million in taxpayer funds every year.