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Drew Harwell
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    Drew Harwell
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    May 15
    New: The liberal billionaire @TomSteyer has been paying influencers to boost his campaign for California governor - and many are doing so without disclosure. One big TikToker, who called the 68-year-old a "vibe," didn't mention he'd been paid $10,000
    California gubernatorial candidate under investigation over payments to influencers
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    Drew Harwell
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    Nov 10, 2022
    Spokesperson for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly says they're in communication with Twitter to address the fake-but-verified Eli Lilly tweet that has been up for three hours and has 1,500 retweets and 10,000 likes wapo.st/3UrrHSs
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    Drew Harwell
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    Nov 14, 2022
    New: That fake verified Eli Lilly account sparked a panic inside the pharma giant, and senior execs decided they'd had enough, freezing all Twitter ad campaigns in a huge blow to @elonmusk. "For $8," they lost out on "millions of dollars in ad revenue"
    A fake tweet sparked panic at Eli Lilly and may have cost Twitter millions
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Drew Harwell
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    Feb 28, 2025
    The reporter who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is from the pro-Trump network Real America’s Voice and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots after the White House blocked the Associated Press
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    Drew Harwell
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    May 14, 2022
    The haters were wrong again. They said this would just be a subway but it's actually slower and worse
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    Wild Geerters
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    May 13, 2022
    When Elon announced this project it was going to be autonomous vehicles transporting up to 16 people per vehicle at a speed of 124mph. It's now finished and the result is regular Tesla cars going up to 35mph in a single lane tunnel that can only be used one direction at a time
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    Drew Harwell
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    Jan 13, 2021
    Very telling video of rioters outside the Capitol shouting at police: "We were invited here. We were invited by the president of the United States"
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    Drew Harwell
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    Apr 15, 2021
    Popular Japanese biker @azusagakuyuki turns out to be a 50-year-old man using FaceApp. "No one will read what a normal middle-aged man posts on his account" bbc.in/3acsYb1
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    Drew Harwell
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    Apr 15, 2022
    New: Ukraine has run more than 8,600 facial recognition searches on dead or captured Russians in the 50 days since the war began, using the scans to find the soldiers' social media profiles - and send photos of their corpses to their families back home
    Ukraine is scanning faces of dead Russians, then contacting the mothers
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Drew Harwell
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    Jan 8, 2021
    New: Congrats to everyone who photographed themselves doing crimes in the Capitol. It's loaded with phone location trackers, and those (unmasked) pics could work great in a facial-recognition scan. Hundreds of FBI agents are working the case as we speak wapo.st/3hXFcXB
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    Drew Harwell
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    Aug 15, 2025
    These images of women in military uniforms are AI-generated fakes. You can see the Grok watermarks
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    Aug 14, 2025
    . @PressSecDOD "The Army, the Air Force, the Navy, EVERYONE IS HITTING THEIR (RECRUITING) METRICS EARLY! It is a TESTAMENT to Secretary Hegseth and President Trump's LEADERSHIP!"
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    The photos of military servicemen and women presented are fake, and was made by Grok. A grok watermark can be seen in images. newrepublic.com/post/199175/de… dailykos.com/stories/2025/8… cnn.com/2025/08/15/med…
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    Drew Harwell
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    Oct 15, 2022
    New: Will Wilkerson helped create Trump's media company. He even posted Trump's first "truth" on Truth Social. Now he alleges the company violated securities laws and that Trump pressured executives to give their shares to his wife. And there are tapes wapo.st/3exJGH0
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    Drew Harwell
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    Oct 29, 2024
    New: On @elonmusk’s X, Republicans go viral as Democrats disappear. We analyzed 100 top political accounts and found that Republicans are getting followed more and going viral more now that the world’s richest Trump supporter is running the show. Look at these charts:
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    Drew Harwell
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    Feb 13, 2025
    This "large scale social deception" contract was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching *defenses* against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations"; was a public record, visible online for many years
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    Elon Musk
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    Feb 13, 2025
    Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for “large scale social deception”. That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. Just wow.
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    Drew Harwell
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    Dec 2, 2022
    Kanye and Elon, a play in four tweets