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Hope Talbot is a freelance journalist currently based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The Daily Express, Euronews, and Bristol24/7, to name a few.

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iPhone owners panic over Starlink iOS update—but fears are entirely overblown

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Interim U.S. attorney backs Musk’s fury over DOGE employee reveal: ‘We have our prosecutors preparing’

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‘Model SS coming soon’: People are flooding a Tesla review video with scathing Nazi-themed jokes

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Trump-Musk ‘buyout’ inspires federal employees to keep working: ‘They can drag me out’

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‘Never been more excited for a collab’: Boeing-Musk team up for Air Force One rush job, raising eyebrows

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‘Put him in a pool and delete the ladder’: People think Elon Musk’s gestures are giving off serious Sims NPC vibes

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Main Character of the Week: The last days of NFL Twitter

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‘Cannot be trusted’: Why Elon Musk and his right-wing allies are attacking Sam Altman on X

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‘To everyone defending Elon, I want you to do it’: Woman challenges people to do Musk’s controversial ‘salute’ publicly — and one woman does

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Reddit communities are banning links to X following Musk’s ‘salute’

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‘Pure propaganda’: Trump fans want to defund PBS for accurately covering Musk’s ‘salute’

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