Since Musk, the world’s richest person, took over X (then Twitter) in 2022 in a $44B deal, the site has come under constant criticism for promoting extremist content and misinformation.
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Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
3 July 2026
Dean Logan, the head of the Los Angeles County registrar-recorder/county clerk’s office, said his office is fighting to contain a wave of election misinformation, including some that is amplified by the White House.
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Ana Ceballos
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
These are attacks in which a bad actor misleads an AI model by injecting malicious instructions into a conversation, such as a PDF or website code designed to extract valuable company data.
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Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
6 June 2026
Trademark law asks whether the use misleads consumers about whether a company or person has produced or endorsed something.
The lawsuit accuses Roblox and Discord of wrongful death, fraudulent concealment and misrepresentations, negligent misrepresentation and strict liability.
Progressives across the country have spent years arguing that unlimited outside spending distorts democracy, empowers wealthy interests, and undermines trust in government.
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Julie Won,
New York Daily News,
14 June 2026
This lyrical collection from B Batchelor—a 2025 Haymarket Writing Freedom Fellow, and a recipient of multiple awards from PEN America—explores the way incarceration distorts time.
Critics pointed to technological deficiencies, market distortions, misallocation of capital, inefficient state intervention, corruption, and questions about implementation.
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Dewardric L. McNeal,
CNBC,
28 June 2026
Not the fun stuff — waving down at your antlike neighbors, chatting up green alien dudes — but the dicey stuff like zero gravity and sound and communication distortions?
The complaint also claims that the image deceives customers into thinking Lipa has endorsed the product and dilutes her brand identity.
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Mary Cunningham,
CBS News,
11 May 2026
The fragmentary Ni 12501 tablet from the Early Dynastic III period of Mesopotamia breaks off when Fox deceives the inhabitants of the netherworld in his quest to retrieve the storm god Ishkur.
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Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
But the total tally obscures how there were basically two types of Davis residents, those living close to the project and those living elsewhere in town.
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