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Elon Musk has spent the better part of a year complaining about “illegal immigrants” who are “invading” the country.

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A man from suburban Kansas City was falsely accused in social media posts of being a mass shooter at the Super Bowl parade for the Kansas City Chiefs last month. And now that man has filed a defamation lawsuit against Rep.

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I spent a lot of time watching YouTube on my TV, so you can imagine my surprise when app researcher Nima Owji shared an early look at X’s upcoming TV app: It looks almost exactly like YouTube.

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This week’s big tech news stories took a different look at the world.

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A tweet that appears to show far-right influencer Candace Owens ridiculing Ben Shapiro with reference to a “dry” bank account went viral on Friday. The tweet refers to “Ben’s wife” and even looks like it had been deleted, based on a viral screenshot. But the tweet isn’t real. It was made by a comedian.

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Links have always been an important part of Twitter’s ecosystem. But lately, links on X are sending people to different sites than what they’re clicking. A verified account on X recently posted a link to a legitimate Forbes article that took users to a Telegram account promoting a crypto scam.

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Mark Zuckerberg made his first post in the “fediverse” on Thursday. If you have no idea what the hell that means, join the club.

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Parler is back, baby. After a year-long hiatus from the web, the conservative social media site has returned to the internet, and this time its new owners are promising it won’t become the radical rightwing hellscape it was when it left.

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Neuralink, Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup, live-streamed an interview with its first patient on Wednesday.