Gizmodo : Politics

The stock price for former President Donald Trump’s media company shot up Friday following a presidential debate that was widely viewed as a total disaster for his opponent, current President Joe Biden.

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Gizmodo : Politics

President Joe Biden delivered a performance at Thursday’s debate with Donald Trump that was so bad even his staunchest allies are calling for the president to drop out of the race. But if Biden sticks it out until November’s election, as it looks like he plans to do, he’s going to need plenty of help convincing young…

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President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump are scheduled to square off tonight in the first of two presidential debates for the 2024 election season. But this week has seen a number of conspiracy theories go viral on social media, with many people claiming there are shadowy forces conspiring to help Biden…

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Convicted felon Donald Trump staged another rally in Racine, Wisconsin on Tuesday, where he played all his classic hits, from xenophobia to fake news. But it was Trump’s attempt to smear President Joe Biden as senile that really went off the rails.

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Celebrities and billionaires have long complained that it’s just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste as they flit through the skies via their private jets.

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It was a bad week for Truth Social and the Tesla Cybertruck. Both showed that they might not be as great as Donald Trump and Elon Musk thought. This week also saw a terrifying AI video generator, major complaints about a dog-sitting app, and the retirement of a beloved robot. Check out the big tech stories of the…

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Elon Musk helped publicize a claim that “illegals” are registering to vote in several U.S. states on Tuesday. But, like so many of Musk’s tweets on X recently, the billionaire’s fearmongering crumbles under the smallest amount of scrutiny. And in this case, the state of Texas is calling bullshit.

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

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Mark Zuckerberg began testing a horizontal swiping feature on Wednesday for his pet project, Threads, the app whose main purpose seems to be trolling Elon Musk. The feature appears to be something Musk tweeted about two weeks ago, noting that he’s wanted to add it to X for the last year.