The Daily Money: How to avoid wildfire scammers

excellent morning! It’s Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money.

Deadly wildfires have devastated Los Angeles neighborhoods, destroying homes and forcing thousands to evacuate.

As the fires continue to threaten the region, Felecia Wellington Radel reports, Americans looking for ways to assist those affected could be prey for cyber criminals trying to receive advantage of the crisis.

But there are ways to remain secure online.

Meta cancels DEI programs ahead of inauguration

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta has canceled its diversity, stake and inclusion programs, the latest in a series of political maneuvers from CEO Mark Zuckerberg to align his social media business with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration and the MAGA anti-“woke” movement.

Meta said the sweeping policy shift was the outcome of the changing legal landscape for DEI.

Could Trump dump the CFPB?

In 2017, then-President Donald Trump appointed White House monetary schedule Director Mick Mulvaney to run the buyer monetary Protection Bureau. As a Republican member of Congress, Mulvaney had previously called the CFPB “a joke… in a ill, unhappy benevolent of way.”

So it was a bit like déjà vu when Elon Musk, Trump’s recent presidential adviser, tweeted in early November, “Delete CFPB. There are too many duplicative regulatory agencies.” The CFPB is also named in the Heritage Foundation’s policy document assignment 2025, which calls it “a highly politicized, damaging, and utterly unaccountable federal agency.”

Is the buyer protection agency in peril?

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About The Daily Money

Each weekday, The Daily Money delivers the best buyer and monetary information from USA TODAY, breaking down complicated events, providing the TLDR version, and explaining how everything from Fed rate changes to bankruptcies impacts you.

Daniel de Visé covers money management for USA Today.