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Judge sends strong message about Elon Musk's attacks on disinformation experts
Plus, Vladimir Putin is getting help spreading propaganda from unlikely sources, and Ron DeSantis gets a little antisocial. Here are the top tech stories from the last week.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk took an embarrassing loss in court on Monday after a federal judge tossed out his lawsuit accusing a disinformation watchdog of attempting to hurt his social media company’s bottom line. NBC News published a report last week on the looming obstacles for police and other law enforcement authorities to use “geofence warrants,” a controversial investigative tool that uses a mobile device’s geolocation data to determine who was in a particular area at a particular time. In it, he explained how recent hacks of Fulton County’s government servers underscore the technological threats District Attorney Fani Willis’ is facing — potentially from backers of Trump and Young Thug — that could hamper her investigations or make a mistrial more likely in either case.
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